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1912 Chicago Cubs Season
The 1912 Chicago Cubs season was the 41st season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 37th in the National League and the 20th at West Side Park. The Cubs finished third in the National League with a record of 91–59. Third baseman Heinie Zimmerman led the circuit in home runs, batting average, and slugging percentage. Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents 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'' (a) Baseball Reference and Retrosheet have his 1912 RBI total at 104. Baseball Almanac and The Baseball Cube have his RBI total at 99. 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 = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts'' Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Side Park
West Side Park was the name used for two different ballparks that formerly stood in Chicago, Illinois. They were both home fields of the team now known as the Chicago Cubs of the National League. Both ballparks hosted baseball championships. The latter of the two parks, where the franchise played for nearly a quarter century, was the home of the first two world champion Cubs teams ( and ), the team that posted the best winning percentage in Major League Baseball history and won the most games in National League history (), the only cross-town World Series in Chicago (1906), and the immortalized Tinker to Evers to Chance double-play combo. Both ballparks were primarily constructed of wood. The first West Side Park (1885–1891) The initial stadium was the club's home beginning in , succeeding Lakefront Park. Although the park's useful life turned out to be as short as the ball club's stay at the Lakefront (seven years), it was also memorable, as the team won back-to-back Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Madden
Leonard Joseph Madden (July 2, 1890 – September 9, 1949) was an American baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues in 1912. He played for the Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as part of the National League (NL) Central division. The club plays its home games at Wrigley Field, which is located .... References 1890 births 1949 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Chicago Cubs players Aurora Blues players South Bend Benders players Terre Haute Terre-iers players Terre Haute Highlanders players Baseball players from Ohio {{US-baseball-pitcher-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Cotter (baseball)
Richard Raphael Cotter (October 4, 1889 – April 12, 1945) was a professional baseball catcher. After playing at Manhattan College he played 20 games for the 1911 Philadelphia Phillies and another 20 for the 1912 Chicago Cubs. He later played in the American Association in 1913, the International League from 1920 to 1921 and the New York-Pennsylvania League New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz Albums and EPs * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator ... in 1923 and 1924. External links 1889 births 1945 deaths Major League Baseball catchers Philadelphia Phillies players Chicago Cubs players Baseball players from Manchester, New Hampshire Indianapolis Indians players Jersey City Skeeters players Reading Marines players Reading Aces players Binghamton Triplets players Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn Warr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Chapman (baseball)
Harry E. Chapman (October 26, 1885 – October 21, 1918) was a professional baseball player. He played all or part of five seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Terriers, and St. Louis Browns, primarily as a catcher. He saw the majority of his action as a backup backstop for the Terriers in the Federal League. Early career Chapman played minor league baseball in the Central Kansas League. He made his major league debut on October 6, 1912, the final game of the Chicago Cubs' season, and went 1-for-4 with a triple and an RBI. On December 15 that offseason, Chapman was traded by the Cubs, along with Grover Lowdermilk and future Hall of Famer Joe Tinker, to the Cincinnati Reds for five players. Chapman, however, played with the minor-league Atlanta Crackers for much of 1913. He made two pinch-hitting appearances for the Reds that season, singling and striking out. Federal League The catcher was one of many MLB players to jump to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Archer
James Patrick Archer (May 13, 1883 – March 29, 1958) was an Irish-born catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who spent nearly his entire career with four National League teams, primarily the Chicago Cubs, for whom he played from 1909 to 1917. Born in Dublin, he also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1904, the American League's Detroit Tigers in 1907, and the Pirates, Brooklyn Robins and Cincinnati Reds in 1918. As a catcher, he could remain squatting and still throw out runners attempting to steal second base due to his unique arm strength, which became his trademark, acquired from the healing of burns that shortened his muscles after an industrial accident in which Archer fell into a vat of boiling sap at the age of 19. His family immigrated to Montreal when he was an infant, later moving to Toronto when he was three; he attended Toronto's De La Salle College and St. Michael's College School. He was working at a barrelmaker in Toronto in 1902 when he suffered the burns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Vernon
Joseph Henry Vernon (November 25, 1889 – March 13, 1955) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Tip-Tops The Brooklyn Tip-Tops were a team in the short-lived Federal League of professional baseball from 1914 to 1915. The team's name came from Tip Top Bread, a product of Ward Baking Company, which was also owned by team owner Robert Ward. They were so .... ''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-1-1. References External links 1889 births 1955 deaths[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Toney
Fred Toney (December 11, 1888 – March 11, 1953) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals from 1911 to 1923. His career record was 139 wins, 102 losses, and a 2.69 earned run average. Toney twice won 20 games in a season (1917, 1920) and also led the National League in saves in 1918. Career Minor leagues Fred Toney was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 11, 1888. As a youth he reportedly developed arm strength while working on a farm, using his spare time to throw rocks across the Cumberland River. Toney broke into baseball as a 16-year old in 1909, when he began pitching in the Blue Grass League, a newly formed circuit of semi-professional baseball clubs based in small Kentucky towns."Giant Fred Toney Doped to Start with Cub Team," ''Muncie Star Press,'' vol. 33, no. 332 (March 26, 1911), p. 11. While pitching for the Winchester Hustlers, Toney was spotted by Chicago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Sommers
Rudolph Sommers (October 30, 1886 in Cincinnati, Ohio – March 18, 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Tip-Tops and Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight ... in all or part of four seasons spanning 1912–1927. References Baseball players from Cincinnati Major League Baseball pitchers 1886 births 1949 deaths Chicago Cubs players Brooklyn Tip-Tops players Boston Red Sox players Baseball players from Louisville, Kentucky Waco Navigators players Lawrenceburg (minor league baseball) players Terre Haute Hottentots players Terre Haute Stags players Dayton Veterans players Nashville Vols players Chattanooga Lookouts players Pawtucket Rovers players New Haven White Wings p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Smith (pitcher)
Charles Edwin Smith (April 20, 1880 – January 3, 1929) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Cleveland Bronchos (1902), Washington Senators (1906–1909), Boston Red Sox (1909–1911) and Chicago Cubs (1911–1914). Listed at , 185 pounds, Smith batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His older brother, Fred Smith, was an infielder in the majors. Smith always was a bad-luck pitcher either due to injury or playing on a bad baseball team. He had a promising debut for Cleveland on August 6, 1902, defeating future Hall of Famer Rube Waddell and the Philadelphia Athletics, 5–4, at League Park. Then, working with two days' rest, he shut out the Baltimore Orioles, 7–0, ending his rookie season with a 2–1 record in three starts. He spent three years in the minors before joining the Senators in 1906. In three seasons for Washington, he posted ERAs of 2.91, 2.61 and 2.41, but finished with negative records of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Richie
Elwood Lewis Richie (August 23, 1883 in Ambler, Pennsylvania – August 15, 1936 in South Mountain, Pennsylvania), was a professional baseball player was a pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1906 to 1913. He played for the Chicago Cubs, Boston Doves and Philadelphia Phillies. Biography Richie signed to play for the Tri-State League's Williamsport Millionaires, Williamsport team in 1906. The Tri-State League was an "outlaw league" whose contracts were not respected by Major League Baseball, and Richie jumped his 1906 Williamsport contract to sign with the Phillies. Richie was a gifted musician and minstrel show performer during his playing career. Minstrel entertainer George "Honey Boy" Evans practiced with the Phillies in spring training in 1908. Richie brought his instruments to Savannah, Georgia where the team trained, and he and Evans organized the other players into a minstrel troupe for evening entertainment. External links References {{DEFAULTSORT:Richie, Lew 1883 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Reulbach
Edward Marvin "Big Ed" Reulbach (December 1, 1882 – July 17, 1961) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs during their glory years of the early 1900s. Career Reulbach played college baseball at the University of Notre Dame in 1903 and 1904. He played for the University of Vermont in 1905, accumulating a 4-0 record before signing a contract with the Chicago Cubs in May. In the 1906 World Series (ultimately won in six games by the Chicago White Sox), Reulbach shone in Game 2 at South Side Park, giving up only one hit, a seventh-inning single to Jiggs Donahue. This rare World Series low-hit game (there have only been five in the 100-plus years of the Series) was matched by fellow Cubs star Claude Passeau in 1945 when he threw just the second one-hitter in Series history, surpassed by Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. Reulbach's best year was 1908, when he won 24 games for the National League and World Series champion Cubs, their l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Powell (baseball)
William Burris Powell (May 8, 1885 September 28, 1967) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and Cincinnati Reds."Bill Powell Statistics and History" baseball-reference.com. Retrieved August 27, 2011. References External links * 1885 births 1967 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Pittsburgh Pirates players Chicago Cubs players Cincinnati Reds players Baseball players from West Virginia People from Taylor County, West Virginia Springfield Ponies players Kansas City Blues (baseball) players Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players Little Rock Travelers players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
