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Home > Baseball > MLB Hall of Famers > Freddie Lindstrom
Freddie Lindstrom
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.
Freddie Lindstrom was born on Tuesday, November 21, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois. Lindstrom was 18 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 15, 1924, with the New York Giants. His height was 5 feet 11 inches with weight 170 pounds. Lindstrom joined the Giants in 1924 and that fall became the youngest player to appear in a World Series. In Game Five, he had four hits against Washington's Walter Johnson, but Lindstrom is best remembered for his part in the seventh and deciding game. In the bottom of the 12th, Earl McNeely's grounder took a wild hop over third baseman Lindstrom's head, allowing the Series-winning run to score.
Lindstrom hit 0.300 or better in seven of his 13 Major League seasons. In 1928 he batted 0.358 with a league-leading 231 hits. He had 231 hits again in 1930, reaching career highs of 0.379 and 22 home runs. He drove in more than 100 runs in both seasons. He was never outstanding at 3 balls, and when he suffered back problems in 1931, Lindstrom was moved to the outfield. Bill Terry was made Giants manager in 1932 when John McGraw retired. Lindstrom was bitter that he was not the choice and asked Terry to trade him. He was obliged in a three-team deal that sent him to Pittsburgh that December. But 1933 was his last year as a regular.
Unfortunately he died on 04 October 1981, in Chicago, Illinois. He had quick hands for a ground ball or a deft tag, quickness afoot for covering a middle infielder's territory, and quick-wittedness for lightning response to defensive opportunity.
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