200 CLUB MEMBERS
John Emory, Bees - 217
Lewis Meece, Hillbillies 210
Arthur Lindley, Bees 209
Jim Metcalf, Transportation 208
Harvey Souther, Pirates 206
500 CLUB MEMBERS
John Emory, Bees 564
Lewis Meece, Hillbillies 562
Harvey Souther, Pirates 553
Arthur Lindley, Bees 542
L. C Poor, Pirates 541
Bruce Reynolds, Transportation 541
Carrol Fktcher, Cello-Mecks 521
Chris Rogers, Champagne 502
BASEBALL BANQUET BEING PLANNED
Plans are being formulated to hold the Annual
Ecusta Baseball Banquet in the near future at
which time the Cellophane Operations team,
Ecusta’s champions for 1952 season will be hon
ored.
All employees who are eligible to attend the
banquet will be notified by the Athletic Depart
ment as soon as a definite date is set for the oc
casion
Roger Hornsby holds the season record for the
highest batting average in the National League.
He had an average of .424 for 146 games in 1924.
In 1948 Pat Seery hit four home runs in one
game and was given $500.00 as a prize.
Ty Cobb compiled a batting average of .367 for
the 24 years he was in organized baseball. He held
the highest batting average for one season in the
American League. In 146 games in 1911, his av
erage was .420. George Sisler tied this record in
1922 when his average was .420 for 142 games.
The modern World Series started in 1903 with
Boston defeating Pittsburgh five games out of
eight in a proposed 5 out of 9 game series. There
was no series played in 1900, 1901, and 1902 be
cause the American and National Leagues were at
war with each other.
HOWARD TIGER WINS BATTING CROWN
Howard Tiger, the most traded player of Ecus
ta’s Baseball League, who started the season with
Paper Converting and finished with Cellophane
Maintenance, copped the league’s batting crown
for the 1952 season with a batting average of
.550 percent.
Phil Riddle of the Paper Converting team was
second with a batting average of .529 percent.
Luther Norton and Rusty Carland both mem
bers of the Cellophane Operations team wound up
in a tie for third place each posting an average of
.500 percent.
To be eligible for the batting championship a
player had to participate in at least half of his
team’s scheduled games.
Listed as follows are the batting averages of all
players who participated in 4 games or more or
went to bat at least 11 times.
NAME
GP
AB
H
Pet.
Howard Tiger
.... ... 6
20
11
.550
Phil Riddle
6
17
9
.529
Luther Norton
6
16
8
500
Rusty Carland
6
16
8
.500
Jim Kilpatrick
4
13
6
.462
Fred Miller
8
22
10
.455
John Houston
7
23
10
.435
Jack Ammons
4
12
5
.417
David Sams
7
28
11
.393
Troy Drake
8
24
9
.375
Marshall Gillespie
4
11
4
.364
Robert Head
6
11
4
.364
Pete Dockens
5
15
5
.333
Clifton Thomas'
5
16
5
.313
Mitch Taylor
5
13
4
.308
James Clay
7
23
7
.304
Marshall Loftis
6
20
6
.300
Wilson Gregory
8
27
8
.296
Roy Head
8
14
4
.286
Fritz Merrell
6
18
5
.278
Charles Parker
4
13
3
.231
Clint Morris
5
13
3
.231
L. C. Poor
8
22
5
.227
D. C. Landreth
5
15
3
.200
John Landreth
4
12
2
.167
Dsnnis Norton
6
17
2.
.118
Rov Compton
7
18
2
.111
In 1904 Boston won the American League pen
nant and the New York Giants copped the Na
tional flag, but an old fued opened up again be
tween the two teams and no series was played that
year.
In 1896 Ed. Delehanty hit four home runs in
one game and was given four boxes of chewing
gum as a prize.
Roger Hornsby holds the season record for the
highest batting average in the National League.
He had an average of .424 for 146 games in 1924.
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