Sammy Hale
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| Third baseman | |||
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Born: September 10, 1896 Glen Rose, Texas |
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Died: September 6, 1974 (aged 77) Wheeler, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 20, 1920, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| August 23, 1930, for the St. Louis Browns | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .302 | ||
| Home runs | 30 | ||
| Runs batted in | 393 | ||
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Samuel Douglas Hale (September 10, 1896 – September 6, 1974) was an American baseball player and manager. He played professional baseball from 1917 to 1941, including 10 year in Major League Baseball as a third baseman for the Detroit Tigers (1920–1921), Philadelphia Athletics (1923–1929), and St. Louis Browns (1930). Hale compiled a lifetime batting average of .302 and was a member of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics team that won the 1929 World Series. He also served as a player-manager in the West Texas–New Mexico League with the Midland Cowboys (1939–1940), Pampa Oilers (1941), and Wichita Falls Spudders (1941).
Hale was born in Glen Rose, the county seat of Somervell County, Texas, in 1896. He later moved to Estelline in the Texas Panhandle. Hale worked "picking cotton and stringing telephone wires" as a young man in Texas.
In April 1917, Hale began his professional baseball career with the Muskogee Reds of the Western Association. Less than one week after joining the club, Hale was nearly killed by an elevator in the Baltimore Hotel. The elevator began descending unexpectedly, "crushing Hale between the wall and the top of the car," leaving Hale hanging by his finger tips from the fifth floor landing. The impact tore the muscles above Hale's left knee and "mashed" the right leg below the knee "so that the skin rested against the bone." Hale went on to appear in 116 games, mostly at shortstop, for Muskogee. He hit 32 doubles, eight triples, 17 home runs, and compiled a .284 batting average.
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