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   Rogers Hornsby Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com. Positions: Second Baseman, Shortstop and Third Baseman. Bats: Right • Throws: Right. 5-11 , 175lb (180cm, 79kg) Born: April 27, 1896 in Winters, TX. More bio, uniform, draft, salary info. Hall of Fame. 2x MVP. 2x Triple Crown. 1926 World Series.

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   Hornsby set National League records in 1922 with 42 home runs, 250 hits and a .722 slugging percentage (still the highest ever for players with 600+ at-bats). His .401 batting average was the highest in the National League since 1897.

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   Jan 4, 2012 · Along the way, Hornsby won seven National League batting titles and batted over .400 three times, including an unbelievable .424 in 1924, the best single season batting average in modern baseball history. Perhaps his most remarkable season was 1922, when he captured the Triple Crown.

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   Was Rogers Hornsby the greatest right-handed batter in baseball history?

   • Rogers Hornsby was perhaps the greatest right-handed batter in baseball history. Off the field, Rogers Hornsby was tough, uncompromising and outspoken. On it, he was perhaps the greatest right-handed batter in baseball history.

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   Who is Rogers Hornsby?

   • Bats: Right • Throws: Right 5-11 , 175lb (180cm, 79kg) Born: April 27, 1896 in Winters, TX Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1942. (Voted by BBWAA on 182/233 ballots) No induction ceremony in Cooperstown held (until 2013). View Rogers Hornsby's Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).

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   What team did Rogers Hornsby play for?

   • Rogers Hornsby (April 27, 1896 – January 5, 1963), nicknamed " the Rajah ", was an American baseball infielder, manager, and coach who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1915–1926, 1933), New York Giants (1927), Boston Braves (1928), Chicago Cubs (1929–1932), and St. Louis Browns (1933–1937).

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   Was Rogers Hornsby a good hitter?

   • Hornsby was so good a hitter that he could just react to the pitch and hit .400. But even most good major-league hitters could not. Hornsby spent much of the late 1940s as director of a youth baseball program in Chicago sponsored by the Chicago Daily News, and operating the Rogers Hornsby Baseball School in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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   Rogers Hornsby is often overlooked as the player who popularized the practice of using a thin-handled bat. Hornsby realized that a thin handle enabled him to get the bat head through the hitting zone more quickly.

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   On it, he was perhaps the greatest right-handed batter in baseball history. Hornsby, whose modern era season-record .424 batting average and .358 lifetime mark for 23 big league campaigns established him as the standard for right-handed batters, was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1942.

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   Apr 17, 2001 · If there had been a Pulitzer Prize for batting, Rogers Hornsby would have won several. In 1924, line drives flew off his bat to the tune of .424, best ever for a twentieth-century season. His career average of .358 is second only to Ty Cobb’s, and he is invariably called, “greatest of right-handed hitters.”

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    Rogers Hornsby (April 27, 1896 - January 5, 1963) was perhaps the greatest right-handed batter in the history of Major League Baseball, and along with numerous career records that he owns, his .424 batting average from 1924 is the highest by a player in the 20th Century.