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1923 Boston Red Sox Season
The 1923 Boston Red Sox season was the 23rd season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished last in the eight-team American League (AL) with a record of 61 wins and 91 losses, 37 games behind the New York Yankees, who went on to win the 1923 World Series. Regular season * September 14, 1923: George Burns of the Red Sox executed an unassisted triple play. He caught a line drive, tagged the runner off first base and tagged second base before the runner returned. Season standings Record vs. opponents Opening Day lineup Roster Player stats Batting Starters by position ''Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in'' Other batters ''Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in'' Pitching Starting pitchers ''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a baseball stadium located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, near Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has been the home of the Boston Red Sox, the city's American League baseball team, and since 1953, its only Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. While the stadium was built in 1912, it was substantially rebuilt in 1934, and underwent major renovations and modifications in the 21st century. It is the oldest active ballpark in MLB. Because of its age and constrained location in Boston's dense Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood, the park has many quirky features, including "The Triangle", Pesky's Pole, and the Green Monster in left field. It is the fifth-smallest among MLB ballparks by seating capacity, second-smallest by total capacity, and one of eight that cannot accommodate at least 40,000 spectators. Fenway has hosted the World Series 11 times, with the Red Sox winning six of them and the Boston Braves winning one. Besides baseball games, it has also been the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camp Skinner
Elisha Harrison "Camp" Skinner (June 25, 1897 – August 4, 1944) was a professional baseball outfielder. He was a reserve player and pinch hitter for the 1922 New York Yankees and 1923 Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). Listed at and , he batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Biography Skinner's minor league career spanned 1921 to 1928, with gaps, as he did not play professionally in 1925 or 1927. His major league career consisted of 27 games for the New York Yankees in 1922, and seven games for the Boston Red Sox in 1923. Prior to the 1923 season, he was traded by New York along with infielder Norm McMillan, pitcher George Murray, and cash to Boston in exchange for pitcher Herb Pennock. Overall, Skinner recorded a .196 batting average with no home runs and three RBIs. Most of his appearances were as a pinch hitter, as he only made six defensive appearances in the outfield (four for New York and two for Boston); he was not charged with any errors. Skinner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Piercy
William Benton Piercy (May 2, 1896 – August 28, 1951), born in El Monte, California, was a pitcher for the New York Yankees (1917 and 1921), Boston Red Sox (1922–24) and Chicago Cubs (1926). Piercy helped the Yankees win the 1921 American League pennant. In 6 seasons, he had a 27–43 win–loss record, 116 games (70 started), 28 complete games, 2 shutouts, 30 games finished, innings pitched, 676 hits allowed, 362 runs allowed, 289 earned runs allowed, 16 home runs allowed, 268 walks allowed, 165 strikeouts, 43 hit batsmen, 21 wild pitches, 2180 batters faced, 1 balk, and a 4.26 ERA. He died in Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California. Incorporate ..., at the age of 55. Sources 1896 births 1951 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers New York Yankees p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lefty O'Doul
Francis Joseph "Lefty" O'Doul (March 4, 1897 – December 7, 1969) was an American Major League Baseball player who went on to become an extraordinarily successful manager in the minor leagues. He was also a vital figure in the establishment of professional baseball in Japan. Career Player Born in San Francisco, California, in the Bayview neighborhood, O'Doul began his professional career as a left-handed pitcher with the minor-league San Francisco Seals of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League. He had some major-league success with the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox from to as a reliever. He pitched for the Red Sox in one notable game at Cleveland on July 7, 1923, that would go down in the record books. Relieving for starter Curt Fullerton, O'Doul gave up 16 runs over 3 innings of relief, with 14 of those runs coming in the 6th inning alone. Although errors committed by Red Sox fielders meant that only 3 of the 16 runs were earned, O'Doul set the major league record f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Murray (baseball)
George King "Smiler" Murray (September 23, 1898 – October 18, 1955) was a baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, and Chicago White Sox. Biography Murray was born on September 23, 1898, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended to North Carolina State College, where he played college baseball for the Wolfpack. In , when he was 23, he broke into the Major Leagues on May 8 with the New York Yankees. He was mainly a relief pitcher, although started two games (out of 22 pitched in all). He was 4-2 with a 3.97 ERA. The next two years Murray spent with the Boston Red Sox On January 30, 1923, Murray was traded to the Red Sox with Camp Skinner and Norm McMillan for star pitcher Herb Pennock and $50,000. In , nearly half of the games he pitched in he started; however, he did worse than he did the year before, going 7-11 with a 4.91 earned run average. His seven wins that season were a career high, though. In 1924, Murray went back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Howe
Lester Curtis Howe (August 24, 1895 – July 16, 1976) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1923 through 1924 for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at , 170 lb., Howe batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. In a two-season career, Howe posted a 2–0 record with a 3.38 ERA in 16 appearances, including two starts, 10 strikeouts and nine walks in 37⅓ innings of work. Howe died in Woodmere, New York Woodmere is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 17,554 at the 2016 census. Woodmere is one of the Long Island communities known as the Five Towns, w ... at age 80 of natural causes. A World War I veteran, he was buried at Long Island National Cemetery. References External linksBaseball Reference [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Fullerton
Curtis Hooper Fullerton (September 13, 1898 – January 9, 1975) was an American professional baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. Fullerton played for the Red Sox from 1921–1925 and again in 1933. He was signed by the New York Yankees in 1925, but never played for the club. Instead, he was released to the Hollywood Stars in the Pacific Coast League where he played from 1926-1928. Following that, he played two seasons with the Portland Beavers from 1929-1930. He was traded to the Jersey City Skeeters in 1931. In 1933, he was re-signed to the Red Sox only to be released again in 1934 to Kansas City. He pitched in the Texas League for the Dallas Steers from 1936-1937. In 1938, he pitched his last stint in organized baseball for the Monroe (Louisiana) White States in the Class C Cotton States League. In the six seasons of his Major League career, Fullerton posted a 10–37 record with 104 strikeouts and a 5.11 ERA in 115 appearances, including 43 star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Ferguson (baseball)
James Alexander Ferguson (February 16, 1897 – April 26, 1976) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams between 1918 and 1929. Listed at , 180 lb., Ferguson batted and threw right-handed. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Ferguson was raised in nearby Bloomfield.Lamb, Bill"Alex Ferguson" Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed September 11, 2019. He died in Sepulveda, California, at age 79. Professional career Ferguson was one of the first forkball specialists in major league history. He entered the majors in 1918 with the New York Yankees, playing for them two years (1918, 1921) before joining the Boston Red Sox (1922–1925), Washington Senators (1925–1926), again the Yankees (1925), and with the Philadelphia Phillies (1927–1929) and Brooklyn Robins (1925). He enjoyed his highest win season in 1924 with the seventh-place Red Sox, when he won 14 games while losing an American League-high 17. In 1925 he divided his playing ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Blethen
Clarence Waldo Blethen (July 11, 1893 – April 11, 1973) was an American professional baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox and Brooklyn Robins of Major League Baseball as well as 18 seasons in minor league baseball. Blethen batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Blethen attended the University of Maine, where he played college baseball for the Black Bears from 1912 to 1915. Blethen spent 18 years in organized baseball, almost all of it in the minor leagues. He pitched briefly for the Boston Red Sox in 1923 and did not earn another opportunity until 1929, when he played with the Brooklyn Robins. In seven major league games, Blethen had no decisions and posted a 7.32 ERA, with two strikeouts in 19-2⁄3 innings pitched. Blethen suffered an unusual injury while playing for the Knoxville Smokies of the Southern Association in 1933. In a game on June 6, the pitcher, who had false teeth and would put them in his hip pocket when he was running the bases, slid into seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Black (baseball)
David Black (19 April 1892 – 27 October 1936) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in the Federal League from through for the Chicago Whales (1914–1915) and Baltimore Terrapins (1915) and with the Boston Red Sox of the American League in . Black batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. In a three-season career, Black posted an 8–10 record with 72 strikeouts and a 3.18 earned run average in 181⅓ innings pitched. In the field, he handled 69 total chances without an error for a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage In baseball statistics, fielding percentage, also known as fielding average, is a measure that reflects the percentage of times a defensive player properly handles a batted or thrown ball. It is calculated by the sum of putouts and assists, div ... External links 1892 births 1936 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Minor league baseball managers Chicago Whales players Baltimore Terrapins play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Ehmke
Howard John Ehmke (April 24, 1894 – March 17, 1959) was an American baseball pitcher. He played professional baseball for 16 years from 1914 to 1930, including 15 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Buffalo Blues (1915), Detroit Tigers (1916–1917, 1919–1922), Boston Red Sox (1923–1926), and Philadelphia Athletics (1926–1930). Ehmke compiled a career win–loss record of 166–166 with a 3.75 earned run average (ERA). His greatest success was with the Red Sox, including a no-hitter and his only 20-win season in 1923. Ehmke still holds the American League record for fewest hits allowed (one) in two consecutive starts. Ehmke also ranks sixteenth all-time in hitting batters. He hit 137 batters in his career and led the American League in the category seven times, including a career-high 23 in 1922. Ehmke is best known for being the surprise starter who won Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Athletics at the age of 35. After retiring from baseball, he started hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al DeVormer
Albert E. DeVormer (August 19, 1891 – August 29, 1966) was an American professional baseball player. He played as a backup catcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and New York Giants. DeVormer batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In a five-season career, he hit .258 with two home run In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team. A home run i ...s and 57 RBI. Devormer died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at age 75. External links 1891 births 1966 deaths Major League Baseball catchers Chicago White Sox players New York Yankees players Boston Red Sox players New York Giants (NL) players Minor league baseball managers Grand Rapids Black Sox players Vernon Tigers players Los Angeles Angels (minor l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
