Joe Sewell
Joseph Wheeler "Joe" Sewell ( born October 9, 1898 in Titus, Alabama; † 6 March 1990 in Mobile, Alabama) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball.
Biography
Joe Sewell began his career in 1920 with the Cleveland Indians. By the death of Ray Chapman, who was killed by a throw from Carl Mays and the violation of its replacement, Ray fuse, the Indians lacked a shortstop. Sewell, who had attended to there is no 100 games in the minor leagues, so came to his debut in the major leagues. The Indians won with him, like the title of the American League and the World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the season 1921 he was the undisputed master player at his position. In 1931, he joined the New York Yankees, where, on the position of the third baseman was a vacancy. Even with the Yankees won Sewell 1932 a World Series title against the Chicago Cubs.
Sewell is still the baseball player with the least strikeouts in the history of the Major Leagues. In 7132 at- bats came against him only to 114 strikeouts, a record which will surely be very hard to break. In the seasons 1925, 1929 and 1933 only four strikeouts were against him to book.
After finishing his career in 1933, he worked for two years as a coach with the Yankees. Later, he was a scout for the Indians as well as a coach for the University of Alabama, with whom he won the 1968 title of the SEC. In 1977 he was appointed by the Veterans Committee in the Baseball Hall of Fame.