Roger Peckinpaugh

Position: Shortstop
Bats: Right  •  Throws: Right
5-10, 165lb (178cm, 74kg)
Born: February 5, 1891 in Wooster, OH
Died: November 17, 1977 in Cleveland, OH
Buried: Acacia Masonic Memorial Park, Mayfield Heights, OH
High School: East Tech HS (Cleveland, OH)
Debut: September 15, 1910 (3,419th in major league history)
vs. WSH 3 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 SB
Last Game: September 25, 1927
vs. CLE 2 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Full Name: Roger Thorpe Peckinpaugh
Pronunciation: \PECK-in-paw\
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Notable Events and Chronology

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May 10, 1913

The Yankees commit eight errors, but still end up beating the Tigers, 10 – 9, in 10 innings. Three of the miscues are by SS Claud Derrick, who will field just .872 for the year. In a move 10 days later that is perhaps related, the Yanks deal for SS Roger Peckinpaugh.

September 12, 1914

Yankee SS Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, replaces Frank Chance and becomes the all-time youngest manager, and the 7th in the club’s 12-year existence. He will win 9 of 17 games and will manage next at Cleveland in 1928.

September 16, 1914

Roger Peckinpaugh becomes the youngest manager in major league history

April 11, 1917

Ruth fires 3 hitter on opening day

June 11, 1919

New York’s Jack Quinn shuts out the Tigers‚ 7 – 0. Yankee SS Roger Peckinpaugh is 2 for 3 to start his 29-game hitting streak.

September 10, 1921

1921 – Catcher Wally Schang has five of the Yankees’ 21 hits as the New Yorkers wallop the A’s, 19 – 3. A major league record-tying five Yankees collect two hits in the 9th inning: Schang, Carl Mays, Elmer Miller, Roger Peckinpaugh, and Babe Ruth. Ruth’s 2nd hit, a single, hits Peck for the 3rd out. Winning P Mays gives up 13 hits to Philadelphia in winning his 16th straight over them.

October 13, 1921

New York Giants win the first “Subway Series.” The Giants defeat the New York Yankees

December 20, 1921

The Yankees raid Boston again, and come away with P Bullet Joe Bush, SS Everett Scott, and P Sad Sam Jones in exchange for SS Roger Peckinpaugh (who goes on to Washington), pitchers Jack Quinn, Rip Collins, and Bill Piercy, and $50,000.

January 10, 1922

The following round-robin deal Roger Peckinpaugh Joe Dugan and Bing Miller and Jose Acosta are traded

September 1, 1925

1925 – In the first of 5 games in Washington‚ Walter Johnson gives the Senators a 7 – 3 win over the A’s. Roger Peckinpaugh drives in 3 runs for the Senators. The Senators now lead the A’s‚ who are in a 12-game losing streak‚ by 4 1/2 games.

September 3, 1925

The first-place Senators continue their march toward a second straight pennant with a 9 – 3 roughing up of Red Ruffing and the Red Sox. Roger Peckinpaugh leads the way, going 3 for 4 with a triple. Alex Ferguson, Yankeecastoff, is the winner. The idle A’s drop six games off the pace.

September 23, 1925

Washington SS Roger Peckinpaugh, a .294 hitter, is named the American League MVP with 45 points; A’s OF Al Simmons is second with 41.

December 25, 1925

Major League Baseball Season Recap 1925

January 15, 1927

Washington Senators trade shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh to the Chicago White Sox for pitchers Leo Mangum and Sloppy Thurston

December 10, 1927

Roger Peckinpaugh begins a six-year term as Indians manager.

May 13, 1929

At Cleveland’s League Park the first game in major league history in which players from both teams wear numbers on the back of their jerseys.

June 7, 1933

Cleveland Indians general manager Billy Evans fires manager Roger Peckinpaugh and hires Walter Johnson to take over. Bibb Falk manages for one game until Johnson arrives.

November 12, 1940

Cleveland Indians owner Alva Bradley finally fires manager Oscar Vitt and replaces him with Roger Peckinpaugh

June 17, 1941

Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees is credited with a hit in his 30th consecutive game when an easy grounder to shortstop Luke Appling bounces up and hits him on the shoulder

November 25, 1941

Lou Boudreau becomes the youngest skipper to pilot a team in the 20th century

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Roger Peckinpaugh

Peckinpaugh was the premier AL shortstop in his day. Rangy, full-chested, and broad-shouldered, with big hands and bowed legs, he pursued the ball relentlessly and effectively, if not always gracefully. A steady hitter, he had a 29-game streak in 1919. He played seventeen years in the majors and won the 1925 American League Most Valuable Player Award. He also managed in the big leagues for eight seasons and was a front office executive

Biography:
Born in Wooster, Ohio, Roger Peckinpaugh reached the majors with the Cleveland Naps late in 1910 and returned to the team in 1912 and briefly in 1913 before being traded to the New York Yankees that year.

After nine years with the Yankees,as a 23-year-old, managed the club for the final 20 games of the 1914 season. He had his best year with the team in 1921, hitting .288 while scoring 128 runs and driving in 72 as the club won the American League pennant. Nonetheless, following the season, he was traded to the Boston Red Sox, who in turn sent him to the Washington Senators less than a month later.

In Washington, he paired with young second baseman Bucky Harris in a top combination that produced a record 168 double playss in 1922. Peckinpaugh was a WS hero in 1924, he hit .417 in series,doubling home the winning run in Game Two and saving Game Six with a key fielding play. Allowing Washington to win there only World Series.

In 1925 he had a great regular season, hitting .292 and being named AL MVP. But the World Series was a disaster. The old pro looked to for reliability made eight errors, several in key spots, as the Senators allowed the Pirates to come back from a 3-1 deficit and lost the Series.This was not out of the norm, as he has the second-worst fielding percentage since 1910 of players with at least 1900 games played.

He was replaced at shortstop by Buddy Myer the following season and traded to the Chicago White Sox before the 1927 campaign. After one year in Chicago, he retired as a player.

From 1928 to 1933, Peckinpaugh was manager of the Cleveland Indians, leading them to a best finish of third in 1929. In 1934, he managed the Kansas City Blues to a 65-88 record and eighth place in the American Association. Five years later, he was skipper of the New Orleans Pelicans, an Indians farm team, and went 57-93 to finish eighth in the Southern Association. He managed the Indians again in 1941 and then was their General Manager and President until 1946. In his 17 years he as a player and manager he was thrown out of only 1 game.

He died in Cleveland, Ohio at age 86 and is buried in Acacia Masonic Memorial Park in Mayfield Heights, Ohio

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