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...George Sisler, once the greatest first baseman in the American League, is now playing in the outfield for Washington...
Hornsby, as everyone knows, was champion batter of the National League for 1920-21-22-23-24-25. Rousch (Cincinnati) onetime leader of the National League is now batting a mild .324. Ty Cobb (Detroit), Tris Speaker (Cleveland) and George Sisler (St. Louis) are three onetime American League champions of whom much is always expected. Sisler and Speaker are having bad years (.317 and .291 respectively) and twelve-time Champion Cobb (with .329) is doing none too well...
...season in the American League, has hit over .300 in 18 consecutive seasons. He holds the U. S. base-stealing record of 96 in 1915, has stolen more bases than any man in baseball with the exception of one Billy Hamilton. Cobb is cut to a different last than Sisler. No decorous college graduate he, but a "sandlot" player, a man of fiery mettle. Often-ihc bleachers, true to the tradition of U. S. sportsmanship, have risen in enthusiastic uproar while Cobb stood shoving his jaw-fare nearer and nearer to an umpire's quivering countenance, uttering words whose import...
Rogers Hornsby, like Sisler, plays for St. Louis, but in the National League. Though only 26, he alone of ball players has averaged over .400 in : batting for four consecutive years; and he holds the extraordinary modern batting record of .423, made...