Willie Keeler

William Henry " Willie" Keeler ( March 3, 1872 in Brooklyn, New York, † January 1, 1923 ) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball. His nickname was Wee Willie.

Biography

Keeler began his career in 1892 in the National League with the New York Giants as an outfielder. In 1893 he then moved to Brooklyn to the groomer to the former Baltimore Orioles in the National League and back to Brooklyn. In 1903 he transferred to the New York Highlanders before he finished his career back in 1910 with the Giants. Thus Keeler is one of the few who has played in all three possible New Yorkers MLB teams of the time.

Exceptional skills showed the outfielder Keeeler primarily as a batsman. In 16 of his 19 seasons, he had a batting average ( batting average) by about 30 %, in 1897 he even reached 42.4%. His career average is 34.1%, so that he is currently in 14th place of the MLB statistics. Twice he led his league in batting average, once in the hits. In the season of 1898 he scored 206 singles. With Baltimore and Brooklyn, he won five championships and three second places. At the end of his career, he finished behind Cap Anson took second place in the number of base hits with 2982nd

Keeler was one of the smallest and lightest player of his time (his size estimates vary between 1.62 m - 1.67 m with a weight of 64 kg). His biggest shock was the special colorful, he understood perfectly execute. Due to its perfection came the rule change that a foul bunt leads the third strike for Strike Out.

In 1897 he set a record of 44 games in series on a Basehit and improved the record of Bill Dahlen with 42 games. Only Joe DiMaggio should break the record with his series of 56 games in 1941. Only Pete Rose managed to 1978, the setting of the 44 series of games. Also Keeler is still the only player to reach more than 200 base hits in eight consecutive seasons.

In 1939 he was appointed to this day the smallest player in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

His positions as a player

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