SAM CRAWFORD

Sam Crawford

Ht 6'0"Wt 190Bats LThrows LBorn 1880 · Wahoo, NEDied 1968

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They called him Wahoo Sam — Samuel Earl Crawford of Wahoo, Nebraska — and for nearly two decades he made the gaps feel like private property. Left-handed, outfield-strong, he sprayed triples until the ledger refused to argue: three hundred nine for a career, a total that still sits alone at the top of the book.

Cincinnati got him first; Detroit kept him. Beside Ty Cobb he turned dead-ball alleys into counting houses — sixteen triples here, seventeen there, then twenty-six in 1914 like a dare. SkillScore peaked in 1908, but the nickname traveled farther than any single summer.

What stayed was a .309 lifetime clip, nearly three thousand hits, and the memory of a Tiger who treated third base like a bus stop.

26 3B · 1914

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SkillScore

151.011908 · DET

ComponentsAVG 0.309OBP 0.362SLG 0.452

Complete Major League Batting Record

YEAR	TEAM	LG	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	SS	Season card
1899	CIN	NL	31	127	25	39	3	7	1	20	0.307	0.318	0.465	—
1900	CIN	NL	101	389	68	101	15	15	7	59	0.260	0.314	0.429	—
1901	CIN	NL	131	515	91	170	20	16	16	104	0.330	0.378	0.524	133.42
1902	CIN	NL	140	555	92	185	18	22	3	78	0.333	0.386	0.461	129.67
1903	DET	AL	137	550	88	184	23	25	4	89	0.335	0.366	0.489	132.77
1904	DET	AL	150	562	49	143	22	16	2	73	0.254	0.309	0.361	117.58
1905	DET	AL	154	575	73	171	38	10	6	75	0.297	0.357	0.430	138.01
1906	DET	AL	145	563	65	166	25	16	2	66	0.295	0.341	0.407	137.35
1907	DET	AL	144	582	102	188	34	17	4	81	0.323	0.366	0.460	148.52	Season card →
1908	DET	AL	152	591	102	184	33	16	7	80	0.311	0.355	0.457	151.01	Season card →
1909	DET	AL	156	589	83	185	35	14	6	97	0.314	0.366	0.452	142.60	Season card →
1910	DET	AL	154	588	83	170	26	19	5	120	0.289	0.332	0.423	135.47
1911	DET	AL	146	574	109	217	36	14	7	115	0.378	0.438	0.526	137.03
1912	DET	AL	149	581	81	189	30	21	4	109	0.325	0.373	0.470	133.10
1913	DET	AL	153	609	78	193	32	23	9	83	0.317	0.371	0.489	140.96
1914	DET	AL	157	582	74	183	22	26	8	104	0.314	0.388	0.483	141.23	Season card →
1915	DET	AL	156	612	81	183	31	19	4	112	0.299	0.367	0.431	136.69
1916	DET	AL	100	322	41	92	11	13	0	42	0.286	0.359	0.401	102.62
1917	DET	AL	61	104	6	18	4	0	2	12	0.173	0.204	0.269	77.96
Major League Totals			2,517	9,570	1,391	2,961	458	309	97	1,519	0.309	0.362	0.452

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