More 1928 Baseball Season Highlights
Following are more highlights from the 1928 baseball season, including the retirement of Tris Speaker.
- Tris Speaker retires and still holds major league career records for doubles (793), as well as DPs by an outfielder (139).
- Speaker retires holding the record for assists by an outfielder (448) and putouts by an outfielder (6,787).
- Eddie Collins plays the last of his career record 2,651 games at second base.
- Giant Freddy Lindstrom's 231 hits set a National League record for third basemen and top the senior loop.
- Yankee Tom Zachary posts a 12-0 record.
- On July 10 vs. Cleveland, Washington's Milt Gaston pitches a 14-hit shutout.
- The Giants win 25 games in September to nearly overtake the Cards at the wire.
- Bob Meusel sets a major league career record when he hits for the cycle the third time.
- Babe Ruth leads the majors in runs a record eighth time.
- The last-place Phils have a 5.52 staff ERA, the worst in modern history to this point.
- Taylor Douthit of the Cards handles 566 chances, an all-time record for an outfielder.
- In January, the Giants trade Rogers Hornsby to the Braves for Shanty Hogan and Jimmy Welsh.
- In November, the Braves send Hornsby to the Cubs for five players and $200,000.
- In May, Washington sells George Sisler to the Braves for $7,500.
- Washington obtains Buddy Myer from the Red Sox for five players.
- Urban Shocker dies at 38 of heart disease.
- The Braves finish with a .327 win pct. (50-103), the poorest ever by a seventh-place team playing a 154-game schedule.
- Del Bissonette hits 25 homers, a Dodgers rookie record.
- Mickey Cochrane hits 12 triples, a record for American League catchers.
- Washington's Sammy West has a .996 FA, a new major league record for outfielders.
- Buddy Myer leads the American League in steals with 30.
- Kiki Cuyler, now with the Cubs, leads the National League in thefts with 37.
- Lefty Grove and Yankee George Pipgras tie for the American League lead in wins with 24.
- Washington's Garland Braxton is the American League ERA king (2.52).
- Paul Waner leads the National League in runs (142).
- Joe Sewell continues to be the hardest player to fan, as he Ks seven times.
- Babe Ruth tops the American League in strikeouts (87) for the fifth and last time.
- The Browns finish a surprising third, as they have two 20-game winners -- Al Crowder (21) and Sam Gray (20).
- Crowder tops the American League in win pct. (.808), becoming the only Brownie ever to do so.
- Red Ruffing of the Red Sox leads the league in losses with 25.
- The Red Sox finish last for the fourth straight year.
- The Pirates' .309 BA is the best in the majors by 13 points.
- The sixth-place Dodgers, thanks largely to Dazzy Vance, have the best ERA in the majors (3.25).
- Chick Hafey, the first bespectacled outfielder in Major League Baseball history, hits 27 homers for the Cards.
