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The Day Bill Dickey Slugged the Senators’ Carl Reynolds, Breaking His Jaw!
Other career highlights include:
- As a player, manager, and coach, he was a member of 14 World Champion teams.
- In the late 1930s Dickey posted some of the finest offensive seasons ever by a catcher, hitting over 20 home runs with 100 RBI in four consecutive seasons, from 1936 through 1939.
- His 1936 batting average of .362 was the highest single-season average ever recorded by a catcher, until Joe Mauer hit .365 in 2009.
- The 1941 season marked Dickey’s thirteenth year in which he caught at least 100 games, a major league record.
- In 1999, he was named to The Sporting News list of Baseball’s Greatest Players, ranking number 57. His Number 8 has been retired by the Yankee. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1954.
Cut from the same cloth as many of the game’s greatest offensive catchers, including Johnny Bench, Roy Campanella, Josh Gibson, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, and Mike Piazza, I think we can overlook this one blot on Bill Dickey’s otherwise stellar career!
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Information: Quotes from Bill Dickey SABR biography by Joseph Wancho https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/25ce33d8 ; Excerpts edited from the Bill Dickey Wikipedia page.
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