Pie Traynor Marquee Hall of Fame 1948

b. November 11, 1898 · Pittsburgh Pirates 1920–1935, 1937

Pittsburgh signed him as a shortstop and moved him across the diamond, where he played 1,862 games. He batted .320 on 2,416 hits, led the National League in triples in 1923 with 19, and finished with 164 of them. He drove in more than a hundred runs in seven seasons, none of them on the strength of home runs.

His best hitting came late. He batted .366 in 1930 and .356 in 1929, and drove in 124 runs in 1928, his highest total. He hit for the cycle against Philadelphia on July 7, 1923. Baseball Magazine picked him as its All-Star third baseman ten times and The Sporting News seven, a fair measure of how his contemporaries rated him.

Pittsburgh won the pennant in 1925 and beat Washington in the World Series, and won the pennant again in 1927. He became the club's manager in 1934 and put himself into five games in 1937, at thirty-eight, which ended his playing career. The writers elected him in 1948 with 93 votes of 121.

Honors

Award	Times	Years
All-Star selection	2	1933, 1934
Baseball Magazine All-Star	10	1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934
The Sporting News All-Star	7	1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1920	PIT	17	52	6	11	3	1	0	2	3	6	1	.212
1921	PIT	7	19	0	5	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	.263
1922	PIT	142	571	89	161	17	12	4	81	27	28	17	.282
1923	PIT	153	616	108	208	19	19	12	101	34	19	28	.338
1924	PIT	142	545	86	160	26	13	5	82	37	26	24	.294
1925	PIT	150	591	114	189	39	14	6	106	52	19	15	.320
1926	PIT	152	574	83	182	25	17	3	92	38	14	8	.317
1927	PIT	149	573	93	196	32	9	5	106	22	11	11	.342
1928	PIT	144	569	91	192	38	12	3	124	28	10	12	.337
1929	PIT	130	540	94	192	27	12	4	108	30	7	13	.356
1930	PIT	130	497	90	182	22	11	9	119	48	19	7	.366
1931	PIT	155	615	81	183	37	15	2	103	54	28	6	.298
1932	PIT	135	513	74	169	27	10	2	68	32	20	6	.329
1933	PIT	154	624	85	190	27	6	1	82	35	24	5	.304
1934	PIT	119	444	62	137	22	10	1	61	21	27	3	.309
1935	PIT	57	204	24	57	10	3	1	36	10	17	2	.279
1937	PIT	5	12	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.167
Career	—	1941	7559	1183	2416	371	164	58	1273	472	278	158	.320

On this day & linked events

1898

Born November 11, 1898

Framingham, MA, USA

1972

Died March 16, 1972

1920

Major-league debut: Pie Traynor

Pie Traynor made a major-league debut on September 15, 1920.

1923

Pie Traynor Hits for the Cycle, 1923

Pie Traynor hit for the cycle for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Philadelphia Phillies on July 7, 1923.

1937

Final major-league game: Pie Traynor

Pie Traynor played a final major-league game on August 14, 1937.

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