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Bucky Harris
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
Bucky Harris was born on November 8, 1896 and died on November 8, 1977 in Port Jervis, New York. He was a Major League Baseball player, manager and executive. In the 1924 World Series against the Giants, Harris batted 0.333 and hit two home runs. He also set records for chances accepted, double plays, and putouts in the exciting seven-game affair. His base hit in the eighth inning of the deciding contest tied the score, and the Senators rallied in the twelfth to clinch Washington's one and only World Championship. Harris learned baseball in the mining region of northeastern Pennsylvania.
An exceptional fielder, he topped AL, American League second basemen in putouts four times and in double plays a record five straight times. An adequate hitter with base stealing ability, Harris had a knack for being hit by pitches. An outstanding basketball player, he played professionally with local Pennsylvania teams during the off-season, until concerned Washington officials ordered him to cease.
Under Harris, the Senators repeated as AL champs in 1925, but lost a hard-fought seven-game Series to the Pirates. After suffering his first losing season in 1928, he was traded to, and named manager of, the Tigers. He spent five unsuccessful seasons directing the Tigers, one with the Red Sox, and then eight more with the Senators, never finishing higher than fourth. Harris managed in the International and Pacific Coast leagues. In 1947, he led the Yankees to a World Series victory, and was named TSN, The Sports Network Manager of the Year.
Harris also served as assistant general manager of the Red Sox and scouted for the White Sox. He was named a special assignment scout with the expansion Washington Senators in 1963, he finished where he had begun his ML, Major League career a half century earlier. Harris, the youngest man to lead a major league team to a World Series victory, was elected, as a manager, to the Hall of Fame in 1975 by the Veterans Committee.
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