Heinie Scheer
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| Second baseman | |||
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Born: July 31, 1900 New York City |
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Died: March 21, 1976 (aged 75) New Haven, Connecticut |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 20, 1922, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |||
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| September 26, 1923, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |||
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| Batting average | .212 | ||
| Hits | 73 | ||
| Runs batted in | 33 | ||
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Henry William "Heinie" Scheer (July 31, 1900 – March 21, 1976) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1922 to 1923.
Born in The Bronx, New York City, he played baseball for the Tremont Triangles, Highbridge Athletics, Bronx Giants, Brooklyn Bushwicks, and Bay Parkways. He began his professional baseball career in 1921 playing for the Hartford Senators in the Eastern League. In his first year of professional baseball, Scheer impressed observers by playing error free baseball for the first 23 games of the season. He accepted 124 chances without making an error in April and May 1921. In September 1921, Scheer was sold by the Senators to the Philadelphia Athletics for $5,000.
Scheer developed a reputation as an exceptional defensive player, but he was weak as a batter. In March 1922, he was given a shot with the Philadelphia Athletics. The Hartford Courant wrote at the teim: "If 'Heinie' Scheer can come through with the old wallop against big league pitching he will be one of the sensations of baseballdom."
Scheer appeared in 41 games and compiled a .170 batting average for the 1922 Athletics team that finished in seventh place in the American League with a record of 65–89.
Scheer returned to the Athletics in 1923. He appeared in 69 games and raising his batting average by 63 points from .170 in 1922 to .238 in 1923. In June 1923, one reporter noted Scheer's improvement as a batter: "The player was a frail lad and shy on hitting, but the youngster is getting some power behind his blows now." In two seasons of Major League Baseball, Scheer appeared in 120 games, including 91 as a second baseman. He had a career batting average of .212, with 6 home runs and 33 runs batted in.
On December 14, 1923, Scheer was traded by the Athletics with another player and $40,000 in cash to the Milwaukee franchise in the American Association for Hall of Fame outfielder Al Simmons. The next year, Simmons became a starter for the Athletics and went on to become one of the most feared hitters in baseball for the next 20 years. Scheer did not play another game in the major leagues.
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