Zack Wheat
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| Zach Wheat | ||
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| Outfielder | ||
| Born: May 23, 1888 | ||
| Died: March 11, 1972 (Aged 83) | Batted: Left | Threw: Right |
| MLB debut | ||
| September 11, 1909 for the Brooklyn Dodgers | ||
| Final game | ||
| September 21, 1927 for the Philadelphia Athletics | ||
| Career statistics | ||
| Batting average | .317 | |
| Hits | 2884 | |
| Runs batted in | 1248 | |
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| Career highlights and awards | ||
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| Member of the National | ||
| Image:Empty Star.svg Baseball Hall of Fame Image:Empty Star.svg | ||
| Elected | 1959 | |
| Election Method | Veteran's Committee | |
Zachariah Davis Wheat (May 23, 1888 - March 11, 1972), nicknamed "Buck", was a left-handed Major League Baseball outfielder. A consistent hitter through his career, he still holds many Dodger franchise records.
Born in Hamilton, Missouri, Wheat made his major league debut in 1909 with the Brooklyn Dodgers (then also known as the "Superbas") and played his first full season in 1910. Over the following decade, he established himself as a steady hitter, regularly batting .300 and placing in the league's top ten in doubles, triples, home runs and RBI. In 1918 Wheat won the National League batting title with an average of .335. Amazingly, he hit no home runs that year.
Wheat's career took off in the 1920s, however. From 1920 to 1925, Wheat hit .320 or higher every season, hit 14 or more home runs four times, drove in 100 runs twice and posted an on base percentage of .400 or more three times. Wheat moved to the Philadelphia A's in 1927 and retired after the season. He finished with 2884 hits, 132 home runs, 1289 runs, 1248 RBI, 205 stolen bases and a .317 batting average. He also holds the Dodger franchise records for hits, doubles, triples and total bases.
Wheat was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1959. In 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.
Wheat currently has a stretch of Route 13 and a memorial athletic field named after him near Polo, Missouri.
His brother McKinley "Mack" Wheat also played in the Major Leagues; the two were teammates in Brooklyn for 5 seasons.
[edit] See also
- Top 500 home run hitters of all time
- List of major league players with 2,000 hits
- List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles
- List of Major League Baseball players with 100 triples
- List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 runs
- List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 RBI
- List of Major League Baseball batting champions
[edit] References
- Enders, Eric. The Baseball Biography Project - Zack Wheat. Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved on 2007-06-06.
[edit] External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
- baseballhalloffame.org – Hall of Fame biography page
- The Deadball Era
| Preceded by Edd Roush | National League batting champion 1918 | Succeeded by Edd Roush |
ja:ザック・ウィート
