Heinie Beckendorf
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1910 Sporting Life baseball card
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| Catcher | |||
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Born: June 15, 1884 New York, New York |
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Died: September 15, 1949 (aged 65) Jackson Heights, New York |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 16, 1909, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 10, 1910, for the Washington Senators | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .182 | ||
| Hits | 25 | ||
| Runs batted in | 13 | ||
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Henry Ward "Heinie" Beckendorf (June 15, 1884 – September 15, 1949) was a professional baseball catcher from 1903 to 1912. He played Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers in 1909 and 1910 and for the Washington Senators in 1910.
Beckendorf was born in 1884 in New York, New York. He played semi-professional baseball with the Williams Athletic Association in New York City and also played intercollegiate baseball for Everett College.
Beckendorf began his professional baseball career in 1903 with the Kingston Colonials of the Hudson River League. He played for Kingston from 1903 through the early part of the 1906 season. In 1905, he helped Kingston win the Hudson River League pennant.
In early 1906, Beckendorf filed a claim with the National Board asking to be released from Kingston's reserve list. Beckendorf sought the release on the grounds that Kingston had failed to pay him all that was due and on the further ground that there was a non-reserve clause in his contract with the team. In April 1906, the Board sustained Beckendorf's claim on both bases and struck his name from Kington's reserve list.
In May 1906, after gaining his release from Kingston, Beckendorf signed with the Providence Grays of the Eastern League. He split the remainder of the 1906 season with the Grays and the Newark Sailors of the Eastern League. During the 1907 and 1908 seasons, Beckendorf played for the Scranton Miners in the New York State League. He helped Scranton win the New York State League pennant and was presented with a silver shaving set by his Scranton admirers.
At the end of July 1908, Beckendorf was purchased from Scranton by the Detroit Tigers with the condition that he would report to Detroit in the spring. In November 1908, Sporting Life reported on Connie Mack's offer to purchase Beckendorf from Detroit: "Beckendorf, the other new catcher, so strongly impressed Connie Mack that he offered the Tigers $2,500 in cash and might have gone higher had there been any use. Mr. Mack told a local man that never in his experience had he seen a catcher get more out of his pitchers than this man Beckendorf did in a long examination he underwent, with the eye of that master looking on."
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