Pete reiser mlb player profile page from whatifsports. Pete reiser is more than a book about one of the greatest ball players of all time. Its also available for football, basketball and hockey. Check out pete reiser career batting and fielding statistics including batting average, hits, home runs, rbi and award history as part of whatifsports free simmatchup baseball. Stampings are deep and strong, with all details clearly visible. He had joe dimaggios yankee mystique with eddie collinss leadership, joe tinkers baseball intellect, the competitive drive of ty cobb, the fearlessness of pete reiser, a gentlemanly role model like christy mathewson, earned the respect of opponents, fans and people inside the game like cal ripken jr. Randy jackson at baseballreference jack littrell at baseballreference pete wojey at baseballreference tommy lasorda at baseballreference great baseball feats, facts and figures, 2008 edition, p. Thanks to our reader mike oleary for suggesting pete reiser for this edition of baseballs forgotten stars, who i remember seeing in the 1960s when he was a cub coach. The difference between the book and the movie is perhaps best explained by the difference between literature and hollywood. Get scores, news and notes in your inbox every day. Miksis ran for reiser and scored the winning run on cookie lavagetto s double, the only dodgers hit of the game, to give brooklyn a 32 win. A righthanded pitcher in high school, he signed a professional contract to play with thomasville in 1939. Win shares are calculated using the formula in the book win shares by bill james. The slow destruction of pete reiser, the greatest player.
The pete reiser world series stats seen below include his world series yearbyyear hitting stats, world series fielding stats, and world series pitching stats where applicable. Most hits in first 162 career games high heat stats. The lodi newssentinel described tim meeks outing in early april 1983 for singlea lodi as fine pitching. Pete reiser baseball stats with batting stats, pitching stats and fielding stats, along with uniform numbers, salaries, quotes, career stats and biographical data presented by baseball almanac. Rose, a switch hitter, is the alltime major league leader in hits 4,256, games played 3,562, atbats 14,053, and outs 10,328. This glove dates from about 1952, and is in a very strong good condition. Louis cardinals 1974 and philadelphia phillies 1974. A big, early lead for brooklyn, a late stretch run by st. The most valuable player award went to fellow teammate dolph camilli who led the league in two areas. One less obvious baseball reference comes when malamud needs a quick way to get rid of bump bailey, roys rival for the femme fatale.
The rough and tumble career of the perfect ballplayer, by sidney jacobson. He then spent three seasons with the baltimore orioles of the international league from 1940 to 1942, and was 1511 in his last year there before being purchased. No telling what he might have done with padded outfield walls and batting helmets. Information aside, there are also games, forums, and ads. It is a history of early baseball with all the back room deals exposed. His biographical data, yearbyyear hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats where applicable, career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous itemsofinterest are presented by baseball almanac on this comprehensive pete reiser baseball stats. Next inning, pete reisers tworun home run put the dodgers up 43, but with. Leo durocher was the dodgers manager in reisers first years in baseball, and later.
The 50 greatest baseball books of all time huffpost. Pete reiser, a 22year old rookie, led the league in batting average, slugging. Pistol pete reiser was a high profile player who developed a big reputation early in his career. Previous owners name is in ink, on front of pinky, but barely visible. Louis cardinals second baseman kolten wong applies a late tag during the third inning of a major league baseball seasonopening game in chicago, sunday, april 5, 2015. Peter edward rose is a former major league baseball player and manager. In the new bill james historical baseball abstract, this team was referenced. The biographical encyclopedia, warning tracks and padded fences came about because of reisers mishaps. Class d is the bottom of the barrel of organized baseball, and this was the second season that pete reiser had managed kokomo. In 1981, lawrence ritter and donald honig included him in their book the 100 greatest baseball players of all time. The book largely ghostwrittenwas a collection of humorous anecdotes surrounding his upbringing and his playing career, and showcased the. When he came back after three years in the military, in 1946 he was again in the top ten in mvp voting. The 1946 nl pennant race was eerily akin to the one the dodgers and cardinals fought out in 1942.
Harper might want to read up on reiser though, since playing with pete reiserstyle aggression and hustle in the outfield, or on the bases, is not the key to longevity in major league baseball. When i first saw the featured photo above, i thought i was looking at the dodgers batboy, or. The 1941 brooklyn dodgers, led by manager leo durocher, won their first pennant in 21 years, edging the st. Macgregor goldsmith g118 pete reiser vintage baseball. Pete reiser was named to the allstar team three times while in brooklyn, 1941, 1942, and 1943. The yankees bill bevens was one out away from pitching the first nohitter in series history when he walked pete reiser intentionally with a runner on second and new york ahead 21. The pete reiser trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where pete reiser has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, and is best known for his 19 years with the cincinnati reds. Subscribe to pete reiser baseball online price guide and get the latest and accurate values of cards from different. It was filled with fascinating sidebars and anecdotes and even though ive read just about everything, i kept saying gee, i didnt know that.
He played with the likes of jackie robinson, dixie walker, joe medwick, and pete reiser. Baseball almanac pete reiser career hitting statistics. Buy pete reiser cards online pete reiser baseball price. In 1941, pete reiser led the league in five major hitting statistics. Usually when i have a real good fastball i have trouble with my breaking stuff. In the case of pete reiser, he could look at two things he had helped to createone with pride and the other with irony. Pete reiser appeared in 74 major league games during the 1951 regular season. One day, after a long march in belowzero weather, he started feeling woozy and was diagnosed with pneumonia. Leather is in very good condition, soft and supple, with no scars or tears. Find the collection of pete reiser sports cards online at. The 1967 topps cards were my starting point for baseball card collecting, and i had completed series 1 to 6 in 1967. These forums are devoted to both pre and post war baseball cards and vintage memorabilia, as well as other sports.
I was a helluva soccer player, he told donald honig in baseball when the grass was real. Reiser was a gifted athlete although he states that his brother, mike, who tragically died at 17 from scarlet fever shortly after signing with the new york yankees, was the true athlete of the family. The 7th series was not sold in my area, but i was able to obtain all but 5 seaver, carew, robinson, wills, john of those cards at card shows in the early 1980s. Harold patrick reiser march 17, 1919 october 25, 1981, nicknamed pistol pete, was an american professional baseball outfielder. Sponsor this page attach your namecompany to the pete reiser page and 1 help support the baseball. Louis and a lateseason injury to the still talented, still reckless brooklyn outfielder pete reiser, hurting the dodgers chances. In 1941, his first full season, pete reiser became the youngest batting champion in history, winning the nl title with a. The chart below is a comprehensive analysis of the games reiser appeared in, specifically relating to his 1951 hitting statistics. They went on to lose to the new york yankees in the world series. Defensive regression analysis data used here was obtained with permission from michael humphreys, author of wizardry.
Meeks fine pitching involved eight innings of fourhit ball without giving up an earned run, according to the newssentinel. I have always followed a simple test to tell if a written work is true literature. He played just 12 mlb games after the latter season. Pete reiser allstar stats the pete reiser allstar stats seen below include his allstar yearbyyear hitting stats, allstar fielding stats, and allstar pitching stats where applicable. Harold patrick pete reiser march 17, 1919 october 25, 1981, nicknamed pistol pete, was an outfielder in major league baseball during the 1940s and early 1950s. He also coached for the california angels in 197071. He is often credited for baseballs creation of the warning track and their need for padding on the outfield walls. The 50 greatest baseball books of all time 04062015 12. For you trivia buffs, reports that the fewest pitches ever. Baseball almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for. The dodgers, a hapless collection of clowns and losers in the years before he arrived in brooklyn, now believed they could win every year. The baseball almanac is more a bathroom book than a coffeetable volume. If baseball was tough on pete reisers body, military life was even tougher.
You can leave it on top of the porcelain, pick it up, read it backwards, and still get an enormous charge out of it. The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is ed by retrosheet. Macgregorgoldsmith pete reiser model g118 rht fielders glove. But a jarring collision with the outfield wall in st. I had excellent control of my curve and slider, meeks told the newssentinel. Pete reiser only played ten seasons and had two seasons where he batted less than 2. Pete reiser society for american baseball research. Pete reiser trades and transactions by baseball almanac. The date box field has a link to the box score from the game being described. Stats awards fabulous feats famous firsts hall of fame hitting charts legendary lists pitching charts record books. Pete reiser 1951 game by game batting logs baseball almanac. For a combination of pure talent and reckless abandon pete reiser gets my vote. Much of redfords portrayal of roy hobbs was inspired by ted williams. Ritter and donald honig included him in their book the 100 greatest baseball players of all time.
Being from brooklyn, malamud was familiar with the unfortunate career of pete reiserthe 1941 nl batting champ and one of the most promising young stars of the era. After his retirement from baseball, garagiola lent his name to a 1960 book baseball is a funny game, which sold well upon release and helped establish garagiola as a personality. Peter gerard richert born october 29, 1939, is an american former professional baseball player. Add countless injuries to his career and one can speculate for days on end what could have been. The 1941 world series matched the new york yankees against the brooklyn dodgers, with the. There will never be a ballplayer as good as willie mays, but pete reiser was every bit as good, and he might have been better. The statistics used were obtained free of charge from the baseball databank. Kenneth w ken trinkle was born on december 15, 1919 in paoli, indiana.
Pete reiser only knew one way to play baseball, and that was full steam ahead, and his aggressive, all out play caused many an injury, including having to be taken off on a stretcher quite a few times. Doctors were ready to issue a medical discharge when the base commander realized he had the great pete reiser in. At age 22 he finished second in the mvp voting, and at age 23 he was sixth in the mvp voting, both times for brooklyn dodgers teams that won at least 100 games. Johns big league baseball blog a life long baseball fans love of americas national pastime. But when the game doesnt go petes way, what will pete do. Fans can find out anything from the most soughtafter baseball stats in this or any season to obscure trivia when famous players died and where they are buried and everything in between. He played primarily for the brooklyn dodgers, and later for the boston braves, pittsburgh pirates, and. By july of 1942, the popular brooklyn outfielder was flirting with.
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