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Q. - Which Pirate player won the batting title seven times?
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One of the biggest siege guns of the New York Yankees. Hasn't led the American League in batting up to this year, but five times finished in the first five. Twice voted most valuable player in American League. What a hitter! Last year swatted .349 in 155 games and smacked out 34 home runs. Used to do some pitching while playing for Columbia, but now confines his fielding to first base. Born in New York City in 1903. Is a left- hander, six feet, one inch tall and moves the weights at 200 pounds.
The 1916 Sporting News M101-4 set was offered as a marketing promotion by C.C. Spink and Son, publishers of The Sporting News, with the backs either blank, bearing the publication’s name, or carrying one of several different advertisements.
Ray "Peaches'' Davis, an all-around prep school and college athlete, began his professional baseball career with the St. Joseph Club in 1930. He moved on to Pueblo in 1931, Wichita in 1932. The next two years he moved to the Texas League, where he made quite a name for himself by winning 19 games for the seventh-place Fort Worth Club in 1934. "Peaches" pitched for Toronto in 1935 and Nashville in 1936 until being purchased by the Cincinnati Reds in the middle of the season. In 1936 Davis won 8 games for the Reds while losing the same number, won 11 games while losing 13 in 1937 and last year won 7 games while losing 12. The three-year major league record of Ray Davis shows that he has pitched 97 games, winning 26 and losing 33.
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