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Rogers Hornsby: A Biography

March 5, 2017

As a big fan of baseball history, especially the pre-1920s era, I was excited to find this biography of baseball legend Rogers Hornsby and expected to learn ever more about the man and the period in which he played/lived. Well, I did learn quite a bit in terms of rote knowledge, but unfortunately finishing the book become more of a chore than anything after the first 100 pages or so.

One of the major characteristics that author Charles C. Alexander dotes on constantly throughout the book is how blunt of a character Hornsby really was. Perhaps, then, Alexander was trying to match his writing style to his subject, but that only amounted to a book as bland as the words on the page.

That being said, I cannot imagine a baseball biography being more thorough or in-depth than this one was. Along with Hornsby's on-field exploits, Alexander also delves heavily into the man's personal marriages, battles with baseball management, and a life-long addiction, of sorts, to the horseracing track. Every "i" is dotted and "t" crossed in terms of Hornsby's

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Rogers Hornsby is considered one of the greatest hitters – and the best right-handed hitter – to ever take the field in Major League Baseball, with a lifetime batting average second only to Ty Cobb. After making his debut in 1915 at the age of 19, Hornsby played 23 seasons in the majors, most of it with two different teams in St. Louis.

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Often overshadowed today by contemporaries Cobb and Babe Ruth, Hornsby is revered among knowledgeable baseball fans as one of the game’s all-time greats. To put Hornsby in context, the Texan’s lifetime batting average of .358 is slighter higher than that of Shoeless Joe Jackson (.355). It also beats other legends such as:

And those are all left-handed hitters. The only right-handed hitter with a lifetime batting average approaching Hornsby is Ed Delahanty (.346), who played from 1888-1903, mostly with the Philadelphia Phillies.

The story most often-repeated about Hornsby – one that shows what a great hitter he was and how much respect even the umpires had for him – goes like this:

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Rogers Hornsby

Any conversation about the greatest hitter in baseball history must include Rogers Hornsby in the opening gambit.1 His .358 lifetime batting average in 23 big-league seasons is second all-time to Ty Cobb’s .367 and well ahead of such all-time greats as Tris Speaker (.345), Ted Williams (.344), Babe Ruth (.342), Lou Gehrig (.340), and Stan Musial (.331). Further, there is really no debate that Hornsby is the greatest right-handed hitter of all time; he is significantly ahead of such notables as Harry Heilmann (.342) and Al Simmons (.334).

Along the way, Hornsby won seven National League batting titles and batted over .400 three times, including an unbelievable .424 in 1924, the best single season batting average in modern baseball history. Perhaps his most remarkable season was 1922, when he captured the Triple Crown. He not only led the league in seven major offensive categories, but he dominated the league in a way few others have. For example, his .401 batting average was almost 50 percentage points higher than that of Ray Grimes, who finished second; h