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Home > Baseball > MLB Hall of Famers > Joe Sewell
Joe Sewell
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.
It is a popular game in North America, parts of Latin America, the Caribbean and East Asia. The modern game initially developed in the United States from an early bat-and-ball game called rounders, and now it has become the national sport of United States.
Joe Sewell was born on October 9, 1898, in Titus, Alabama. Sewell was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 10, 1920, with the Cleveland Indians. When it came to making contact, no one matched Joe Sewell. Few rookies have faced a tougher assignment than Sewell did in 1920. While Sewell was playing his first professional season in New Orleans, Cleveland hero Ray Chapman was killed by a Carl Mays pitch in August.
He was, however, far more than just a contact hitter. Sewell led the Indians in RBI, runs batted in three times and hit below 0.299 just once in Cleveland. He led shortstops in putouts four straight years in assists four times and twice in fielding percentage. He moved to third base in 1929, Joe led the league in assists again. He released after the 1930 season, Sewell filled a trouble spot at third for the Yankees for three seasons before retiring and spent two more years with the Yankees as a coach. He later scouted for the Indians and coached at the University of Alabama, leading the school to a Southeastern Conference title in 1968.
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