Love the uniform.

[quote="biggunsbob":yzl15rpn]I just like this picture of Sam with sunglasses in 1912... Some other time we can get into his relationship with Cobb. Two fantastic players for there time.

Sam (Wahoo) Crawford the Great HOF Tiger ended up with 2961 hits with a MLB record holder of 309 triples. He had 97 Home runs and 1525 RBI"s in the dead ball era. He played from 1899 to 1917... He batted .309/.362/.452/.814

Career highlights and awards
All-time leader in triples
Led NL in home runs in 1901 with 16 and AL in 1908 with 7
Led AL in runs in 1907 with 102
Led AL in doubles in 1909 with 35
Led NL in triples in 1902 and 1903 and the AL in 1910 and 1913-1915
Led AL in RBIs in 1910, 1914, and 1915

Sam was so close to 3000 hits but the Tiger we easing in new right fielder Harry Heilmann who was 22. In 1917 at 37 Sam was a part time player having a terrible year. After being released by the Tigers Sam went out to the PCL in California and played for the Los Angeles Angel's. Helping them win 2 league Championships in 1918 and 1921. In the four seasons he played in California for the Angel's Crawford had another 781 hits with 163 doubles,68 Triples, and 37 Home Runs while batting .333 and slugging .494..

His hit totals by year in the PCL were 104,239,239,199.. (Those last three season the game totals were 173,187,175).. I am not sure what type of season the PCL was under back then... But still those are pretty impressive numbers.. I did look over Sam's Angel's team and it had a few former major league players on it..

To bad Sam did not get to 3000 hit . Only Anson, Lajoie, and Wagner were over 3000 at the time.. Cap Anson was a player who played before 1900, and both Wagner, and Lajoie reached 3000 in 1914.. Anyway i hope the picture makes it...

Baseball legend, Ed Barrow, who managed Crawford in his first two years with Detroit, and went on to convert Babe Ruth to an outfielder as general manager of the Yankees, once said that

I emailed the HOF about his 3000 hits. He had hits in pro ball before joining the ML and asked why it didn't count. They said it was not an official ML or something like that. But, he did have 3000.

tycobb420 said:

I emailed the HOF about his 3000 hits. He had hits in pro ball before joining the ML and asked why it didn't count. They said it was not an official ML or something like that. But, he did have 3000.

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Ty that was good thinking... I mean back in the day the PCL was consider pretty good baseball. On Crawford's team alone there were ex-MLB players. On Doc Crandall was 102-62 in the majors and he went out west and was 230-151 for the angels.. Others included Jack Fournier who was at the beginning of his career.. That was just the 1918 Angels team... Sam was a great player...

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tycobb420 said:

I emailed the HOF about his 3000 hits. He had hits in pro ball before joining the ML and asked why it didn't count. They said it was not an official ML or something like that. But, he did have 3000.

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Ty that was good thinking... I mean back in thew day the PCL was consider pretty good baseball. On Crawford's team alone there were ex-MLB players. On Doc Crandall was 102-62 in the majors and he went out west and was 230-151 for the angels.. Others included Jack Fournier who was at the beginning of his career.. That was just the 1918 Angels team... Sam was a great player...

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He played in the Western League before it was the American league. He had more than the 39 hits needed for 3000. But, they said it didn't count!