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b. December 9, 1872 · New York Giants 1896–1900, 1906–1910, Baltimore Orioles 1901–1902, Cincinnati Reds 1902–1906, Boston Braves 1913

Four players in the game's history have won 50 games and made 1,500 hits: Babe Ruth, John Ward, Kid Gleason and him. He led the National League in strikeouts as a pitcher in 1897 and 1898 and then hurt his arm, moved to the outfield, and hit .303 across sixteen seasons.

In 1905, for Cincinnati, he hit .377 with 219 hits, 40 doubles, 21 triples and 121 runs batted in, leading the league in all of it except home runs, where he had 8 and Fred Odwell had 9. It is one of the best seasons of the era and it did not win him a Triple Crown by one home run.

The Giants bought him back in 1906 for $12,000, which was a great deal of money then. He worked in shipyards during the First World War, contracted tuberculosis and died in 1919, at forty-six. The 1945 ballot gave him one vote of 247.

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1896	NYG	12	32	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.219
1897	NYG	45	141	13	34	5	1	2	14	4	13	3	.241
1898	NYG	80	297	41	82	5	2	4	23	9	22	8	.276
1899	NYG	50	159	25	52	3	2	2	27	4	18	2	.327
1900	NYG	23	40	9	12	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	.300
1901	BLA	134	547	84	166	19	8	1	77	28	25	38	.303
1902	BLA/CIN	134	524	65	158	16	10	5	78	30	46	20	.302
1903	CIN	135	558	85	191	25	15	7	72	33	32	25	.342
1904	CIN	131	531	71	166	26	13	5	58	29	23	11	.313
1905	CIN	149	581	95	219	40	21	8	121	51	29	21	.377
1906	CIN/NYG	151	576	70	165	19	5	8	80	42	42	29	.286
1907	NYG	131	473	46	139	25	8	3	75	36	35	21	.294
1908	NYG	156	587	60	157	23	2	5	92	30	34	18	.267
1909	NYG	80	280	37	87	12	5	1	30	25	8	14	.311
1910	NYG	79	287	32	76	9	4	1	40	23	18	10	.265
1913	BSN	39	73	2	13	2	0	0	10	7	7	2	.178
Career	—	1529	5686	737	1724	229	96	52	799	354	361	222	.303

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1896	NYG	2	4	11	8	0	70.1	75	50	51	33	6.40
1897	NYG	18	14	39	34	1	286.2	257	104	168	156	3.27
1898	NYG	25	19	45	43	0	356.2	313	126	213	239	3.18
1899	NYG	14	18	32	32	0	268.1	247	106	170	142	3.56
1900	NYG	2	1	13	7	0	53.0	58	41	54	19	6.96
1902	CIN	0	0	1	0	0	3.0	4	3	3	2	9.00
Career	—	61	56	141	124	1	1038.0	954	430	659	591	3.73

On this day & linked events

1872

Born December 9, 1872

Albany, NY, USA

1919

Died September 20, 1919

1896

Major-league debut: Cy Seymour

Cy Seymour made a major-league debut on April 22, 1896.

1913

Final major-league game: Cy Seymour

Cy Seymour played a final major-league game on July 17, 1913.

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