Steve Yerkes Stats & Facts
Steve Yerkes Essentials Positions: Bats: R Throws: R 69 Weight: 165 Born: 5 15, 1888 in Hatboro, PA USA Died: 1 31 1971 in Lansdale, PA USA Debut: 9/16/1909 Last Game: 10/1/1916 Full Name: Stephen Douglas Yerkes
Pete Alexander wins help to pull Phillies to within a game and a half of Brooklyn.
At the Baker Bowl, Grover Cleveland Alexander is coasting with a two-hit, 6 – 0 lead in the 8th over the Cubs, when weak-hitting Steve Yerkes lines a single followed by manager Joe Tinker’s only hit of the year. On a double play grounder, 1B Fred Luderus pulls his foot off the bag and Chicago goes on to score three runs. Second-place Philadelphia wins, 6 – 3, to pull with 1 1/2 games of Brooklyn.
Boston Red Sox win the World Series, thanks in part to an error by New York Giants center fielder Fred Snodgrass
On October 16, 1912 –At Fenway Park, game 8 was played as a make up for a game 2 tie. Christy Mathewson faces off vs Hugh Bedient. Bedient pitched 7 solid innings of 1 run ball. Mathewson was his equal through 7. Bedient was replaced by Smokey Joe Wood, who got pounded for 7…
Hugh Bedient beats Christy Mathewson 2-1, Sox take 3-1 series lead
October 12, 1912 at Fenway Park the Red Sox scored two quick runs in the bottom of the third against Christy Mathewson when Harry Hooper led off with a triple, Yerkes also tripled, and Tris Speaker reached on an error by Giants second baseman Larry Doyle allowing Yerkes to score. Mathewson then proceeded to…