Harry Steinfeldt
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Harry M. Steinfeldt (September 29, 1877 - August 17, 1914) was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1898-1905), Chicago Cubs (1906-10) and Boston Rustlers (1911). Steinfeldt batted and threw right handed. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
In a 14-season career, Steinfeldt was a .267 hitter with 27 home runs and 762 RBI in 1646 games played.
Steinfeldt died in Bellevue, Kentucky, at age of 36.
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[edit] Highlights
- Led National League in hits (1906/176)
- Led NL in RBI (1906/83)
- Led NL in doubles (1903/32)
- Set a major league record with three sacrifice flies (1909)
- In 1906 finished second in the NL batting race with a .327 average, behind Honus Wagner (.339) and over Harry Lumley (.324)
[edit] Best season
- 1906: Hit a career-high .312 with 29 stolen bases and led the National League with 83 RBI and 176 hits to lead the Cubs to their first World Series.
[edit] Postseason appearances
[edit] Fact
- Steinfield is the only member of the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield left out of Franklin Pierce Adams' famous poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon.
[edit] Quotation
- The only member of the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield left out of Franklin P. Adams's poem, Steinfeldt was a reliable third baseman with an unusually powerful arm. He originally hoped for a theatre|theatrical career but did so well in a baseball game put on by his touring troupe that he switched to the diamond. – Jack Kavanagh, sports historian and writer
