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|Name=First Switch Hitter | |Name=First Switch Hitter | ||
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|Date=1870/06/14 | |Date=1870/06/14 | ||
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|Country=United States | |Country=United States | ||
|State=NY | |State=NY | ||
|City=Brooklyn | |City=Brooklyn | ||
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|Description=<p>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.</p> | |Description=<p>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.</p> | ||
<p>Ferguson has also become the first recorded switch hitter.</p> | <p>Ferguson has also become the first recorded switch hitter.</p> | ||
|Sources=<p><span>Daniel Okrent and Steve Wulf, Baseball Anecdotes (Oxford University Press, 1989), page 9.</span></p> | |Sources=<p><span>Daniel Okrent and Steve Wulf, Baseball Anecdotes (Oxford University Press, 1989), page 9.</span></p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:20, 15 November 2020
| 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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