White Borders Baseball Card T206 Sherry Magee Sherry Magee was one of the National League’s star players during the early 1900s. A standout defensive leftfielder and a speedy base runner he is one of only five National League players to win the batting trifecta during the entire 1900s. The hard-to-accomplish feat consists of leading the league in batting average, in on base percentage and in slugging percentage. In 1910 Sherry Magee led the NL with a .331 batting average, a .445 on-base-pct and a .507 slugging pct. That season he also led the league with 110 runs and 123 RBIs and in total bases with 263. And, he was second with 39 doubles, third with 94 bases on balls, third with 172 hits and fourth with 49 stolen bases. Should-have-been a serious candidate for the Hall of Fame, Sherry Magee’s baseball accomplishments include leading the league in RBIs four times, 85 in 1907, 123 in 1910, 103 in 1914 and 76 in 1918. He led the NL with 39 doubles in 1914, and led the league twice in slugging pct, .507 in 1910 and .509 in 1914. He had eight seasons with over 30 doubles and stole a resounding 441 lifetime bases, including a high of 55 in 1906. Playing in the dead ball era, Sherry Magee played his first 11 years with the Philadelphia Phillies and had the misfortune of never playing for a pennant winning team. He compiled 2,169 career hits and had eight seasons with over 30 doubles (425 Ds and 166 triples) and stole a resounding 441 lifetime bases, including a high of 55 in 1906. An aggressive, all-around player, in 1911 Sherry Magee was suspended for five weeks for punching and knocking out home plate umpire Bill Finneran while arguing a called third strike. After the 1914 season when he led the NL with 171 hits, 103 RBIs and a .509 slugging average he expected to be named the Phillies manager. When he was not, he demanded to be traded to the Boston Braves who won the NL pennant and swept the World Series over the Philadelphia A’s. On February 14, 1915 Sherry Magee was traded to the Braves, and ironically, the season the Phillies won the 1915 pennant, beating second place Boston by seven games in the standings. After retiring from playing, he umpired in the minors and even was a NL umpire for one season before dying of pneumonia in 1929 at the age of 45. Notes: the 4 other NL players to win a batting trifecta were all elected to the Hall of Fame - Honus Wagner, Rogers Hornsby, Chuck Klein and Stan Musial |