Garland "Jake" Stahl (April 13, 1879 – September 18, 1922) was an American

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and manager in

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with the

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, Washington Senators, and

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A graduate of the

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, he was a member of the Kappa Kappa chapter of

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Stahl began his baseball career as a

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with the Boston Americans in 1903, before being purchased by the Washington Senators, where he moved to first base full-time, with occasional stints in the outfield. He was purchased from the Senators by the Chicago White Sox in May 1907, although he did not play that year. In October, the White Sox traded him to the New York Highlanders in a three-team trade, with

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going from the Highlanders to the Americans and

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going from the Americans to the White Sox. In July 1908, he was purchased from the Highlanders by the Boston Red Sox. He was regarded as a good fielder and an average hitter, although he did lead all hitters in the

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s with 10 in . He also

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128 times for the year, a record that would stand until 1938. As a player-manager, he led the Senators to two seventh-place finishes in 1905 and 1906. Stahl sat out the 1911 season, instead opting to return to his native Illinois, where he took a position as a bank manager for a firm on the South side of Chicago."Jake Stahl is Reinstated," ''Piqua Daily Call,'' Jan. 8, 1912, p. 6. Stahl was offered a position as player-manager of the

for 1912 — a position which required the team and Stahl to obtain formal reinstatement by baseball's National Commission since Stahl had been previously deemed to be in violation of "rule 33" when he failed to report in 1911. This dispensation was given in January 1912, freeing Stahl to assume his place as player-manager of the Red Sox. The team did not elect to fine him for his absence in 1911., and in his second managerial stint led the Red Sox to the

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title. His success was short-lived, as he had a falling-out with his teammates and resigned midway through the season. His successor,

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, would win two more World Series titles for the Sox. Stahl died of tuberculosis in

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at age 43. Stahl has a measure of immortality as the acknowledged

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of the term "jaking it", a baseball phrase for faking an injury to stay out of the lineup, or otherwise loafing. Stahl was not related to Red Sox teammate Chick Stahl, despite contemporary accounts erroneously listing them as brothers.

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