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Home > Baseball > MLB Hall of Famers > Tony Lazzeri
Tony Lazzeri
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.
Tony Lazzeri was born on 6th December 1903 in San Francisco, California and died on 6th August 1946. His height is five feet eleven and half inch with weight 170 pounds. He was inducted with the Hall of Fame in 1991.
Lazzeri was a prominent member of the 1927 Yankees' Murderers' Row lineup and the second baseman on five World Championship Yankee clubs. He had seven 100 RBI, runs batten in seasons and four times hit as many as 18 home runs. His excellent glove, driving leadership and superior baseball instincts made him the hero of Italian-Americans, as their first superstar. He was known as the quiet man of the Yankees. Though an epileptic, he never had an on-the-field seizure in his 12 Yankee seasons.
Playing for Salt Lake City in 1925, assisted by the altitude and a 200-game schedule, Lazzeri set since-broken pro baseball records for 60 home runs HR and 222 RBI and a still-standing record for 202 runs. The following year, he played 155 games for New York. With two out and the bases loaded in the seventh inning, he struck out against Grover Cleveland Alexander in the Game Seven of the 1926 World Series, won by the Cardinals 3-2.
From 1927 through 1930 and again in 1932, Lazzeri batted 0.300 or better; his 0.354 in 1929 put him among the league leaders. On May 24, 1936 he became the first major leaguer to hit two grand slams in one game and set an AL, American league record with 11 RBI.
He was a key member of six pennant-winners. He was a .300 hitter five times and drove in over 100 runs seven times. Lazzeri, who established an American League single-game record with 11 RBI on May 24, 1936, belted 60 home runs and drove in 222 runs in 1925 for Salt Lake City of the Pacific Coast League.
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