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| | Year: | 2017
| | First: | 'Wahoo Sam'
| | Last: | Crawford
| | Home: | Wahoo
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“Wahoo Sam” Crawford, Wahoo, player, and was he ever a player. Sam was enshrined in the major league Baseball Hall of Fame in 1957. His lifetime average of .309 ties his major league career record of 309 triples. He had 51 inside the park homers and a total of 97 homers in the dead ball era. He came up just 39 hits shy of the coveted 3000 mark. The Gray Ink Test method of rating hitters has him rated as 9th best all time ahead of Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams. As a teenager, Sam would tour the Wahoo area in the summers with his friends in a hay wagon beating up on such teams as Valparaiso, Raymond, Touhy, and Ceresco. No wonder…he hit .307 in his rookie year with Cincinnati after just turning 19. He was extremely fast, and legend has it that he would run down rabbits for dinner while on their hay wagon tours. He said he was proud of his hometown and wanted “Wahoo Sam” as his moniker. |
