CHUCK KLEIN·1930

Nineteen thirty was not a polite summer—it was a ledger. Chuck Klein piled two hundred fifty hits, fifty-nine doubles, forty homers, and one hundred seventy ribbies on a .386 clip, scoring one hundred fifty-eight times for the Phillies. Volume made flesh. The Baker Bowl porch may have winked at the long ball, but nobody manufactures fifty-nine doubles or a .386 average out of thin air. Counting beast. Absolute.

250 HITS

Two hundred fifty knocks on a .386 clip — volume made flesh, not a polite summer.

59 DOUBLES

Fifty-nine doubles into the gaps — nobody manufactures that off a porch wink alone.

170 RBI

One hundred seventy ribbies and forty homers — counting beast on Broad Street.

Chuck Klein, Philadelphia Phillies, 1937. Leslie Jones Collection / Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth). Copyright reserved — Owner risk GO 9/7.