First Switch Hitter
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Date | Tuesday, June 14, 1870 |
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Location | Brooklyn, NY, United States |
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Description | In an exciting 8-7 game that ended the Cincinnati Red Stockings' 91-game hitting streak, the Atlantic club's captain Bob Ferguson came to bat in the bottom of the 12th inning, down by a run. Determined not to hit a ball to the Red Stockings' SS George Wright, right-handed hitter "surprised the Red Stockings by taking a left-handed stance. . . . He ripped the ball through the right side of the infield to tie the score, and the [Brooklyn] crowd went wild." An errant throw scored Ferguson from second, and the unbeaten streak was over. Ferguson has also become the first recorded switch hitter. |
Sources | Daniel Okrent and Steve Wulf, Baseball Anecdotes (Oxford University Press, 1989), page 9. |
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