Vital Statistics:
Born: Aug. 30, 1918 in San Diego
Died: July 5, 2002
Teams: Boston Red Sox (1939-60)
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 1966
Height: 6-3
Weight: 205
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
Primary position: Left field
Career Highlights:
- The last player to hit .400 in a season, batting .406 in 1941.
- Hit 521 homers, including one in his final big-league at-bat, and batted .344 in his career, only once hitting worse than .316.
- Lost almost five years of his career, serving in World War II and the Korean War as a Navy pilot.
- A six-time batting champ, "The Splendid Splinter" had a career on-base percentage of .482, first all-time.
- Won the Triple Crown in 1942, batting .356 with 36 HR and 137 RBI, and again in 1947 (.343, 32 HR, 114 RBI).
- Hit .388 at age 39 in 1957.
After Baseball:
- Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1966 in his first year of eligiblity, on 93.38 percent of his ballots.
- Was manager of the Washington Senators from 1969-72 (the team was the Texas Rangers in his final season). Voted Manager of the Year in 1969.
- His body has been cryogenically frozen since his death.
