Up next from my 2018 custom "19th Century Base Ball Champions" set to be featured here on the blog, the original Home Run King Roger Connor, who saw his career home run total fall to a guy called Ruth some 15 years later:
In his stellar 18-year career, he slammed 138 homers, which was an impressive total for the dead-ball days of yore.
A big
dude (6'3"/225lbs), Connor wasn't only a slugger however, by the time
he retired in 1897, he totaled 2467 hits, 1620 runs, 441 doubles, 233
triples and 1323 runs batted in.
He also managed to steal 244 bases as
well, though records for some of these stats were loosely kept, I'll
admit.
Nevertheless,
the man topped 100+ runs scored eight times, 100+ RBI's four times, 10+
homers seven times, and 10+ triples 12 times.
A
very worthy player from the 1800's to be elected into the Hall of Fame,
which finally happened for him in 1976, sadly some 45 years after his
passing.
