Glenn Wright

Shortstop

Born: February 6, 1901
Archie, Missouri

Died: April 6, 1984 (aged 83)
Olathe, Kansas

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

April 15, 1924, for the Pittsburgh Pirates

Last MLB appearance

June 4, 1935, for the Chicago White Sox

MLB statistics

Batting average

.294

Home runs

Runs batted in

723

Teams

Career highlights and awards

World Series champion (1925)

Forest Glenn "Buckshot" Wright (February 6, 1901 – April 6, 1984), was a professional baseball player. He played all or part of eleven seasons in Major League Baseball between 1924 and 1935, primarily as a shortstop. Wright played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Chicago White Sox.

Wright was a standout minor league player for the Independence Producers in 1921, and for the Kansas City Blues in 1922-23. In his major league rookie year, he set the record for most assists (601) in a season which stood for 56 years (until broken by Ozzie Smith in 1980). On May 7, 1925, he recorded an unassisted triple play against the Cardinals, tagging out Jimmy Cooney and future Hall of Famers Jim Bottomley and Rogers Hornsby. That same year he came in 4th in NL MVP voting behind Hornsby, Kiki Cuyler, and George Kelly. He was a member of the 1925 World Series champion Pittsburgh Pirates, homering off Hall of Fame spitballer Stan Coveleski in Game Two.

In 1927, Wright and the Pirates returned to the World Series but were swept in four straight games by the New York Yankees. In eleven career World Series games, Wright had only seven hits in 40 at-bats.

Wright was traded to the Brooklyn Robins in 1928 and named team captain the following season. His tenure in Brooklyn coincided with the name change from Brooklyn Robins to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1932. Considered a premier shortstop of his generation, Wright suffered a major injury to his shoulder in 1929 which plagued him from then on and contributed to his relatively short career.

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