We remember Wally Pipp (1893-1965)
Wally Pipp was born in Chicago on this day in 1893.
He broke with Detroit in 1913 and traded to Yankees in 1915. He put up some great power numbers in the pre-home run era: .281 career average, 1,941 hits, 311 doubles, 149 triples, 90 HR & 1,004 in 1,872 games.
And then Lou Gehrig came into the picture:
Throughout his life and during his baseball career, Pipp suffered recurring headaches, the result, he later explained, of a schoolboy hockey injury that had also left him with reduced vision in his left eye.
He was suffering one of those headaches on June 2, 1925, and asked trainer Al “Doc” Woods for a couple of aspirins. Yankee manager Miller Huggins strolled by and suggested Pipp take the day off. “The kid can replace you this afternoon,” he said, referring to Lou Gehrig. Heading into that day’s game, the Yankees were 15-26, had lost five in a row, and were only a half game from the American League cellar.
Pipp had started slowly too, batting just .244 with three home runs and 23 RBI.
When Gehrig got his opportunity to start, he took full advantage of it.
And a month later, when Pipp suffered a brain concussion, the changeover was complete. Rookie pitcher Charlie Caldwell, later the head football coach at Princeton, beaned Pipp in batting practice, and Wally spent the next two weeks at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan.
When he returned, Gehrig had won the first baseman’s job, and Pipp’s role for the rest of the season was as a pinch-hitter.
During World War II, Pipp worked at a plant that manufactured B-24 bombers in Michigan. Later, he worked for the Rockford Screw Products Corporation, selling screws and bolts to the major automotive companies in the Detroit/Grand Rapids area.
He died in 1965.
Source: http://cantotalk.blogspot.com/2018/02/we-remember-wally-pipp-1893-1965.html
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