GAVVY CRAVATH·1915

Nineteen fifteen was the loudest power ledger. Gavvy Cravath hit twenty-four home runs for Philadelphia with one hundred fifteen ribbies — a dead-ball bomb total that still sits in the air like a dare. Thirty-one doubles. Eighty-six walks. The three frames ahead keep the twenty-four year ringing.

24 HOMERS

Twenty-four home runs — the loudest dead-ball power ledger on the Phillies books.

NL THUNDER

National League pitchers paid early — Cravath thunder in plain flannel.

115 RBI

One hundred fifteen ribbies — production stacked beside the bomb total.

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