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Jake Stahl
Born: April 13, 1879 Elkhart, Illinois
Died: October 18, 1922 (aged 43) Monrovia, California
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Height: 6’2″
Weight: 195 lbs.
Positions: First baseman / Manager
Played For:
As player
Boston Americans (1903)
Washington Senators (1904–1906)
New York Highlanders (1908)
Boston Red Sox (1908–1910, 1912–1913)
As manager
Washington Senators (1905–1906)
Boston Red Sox (1912–1913)
Biography:
Big, powerful, and deceptively fast, Garland “Jake” Stahl parlayed the skills he first demonstrated as a college football and baseball star at the turn of the century into a successful major-league baseball career, primarily with the Boston Red Sox. At 6-foot-2 and 195 pounds, the right-handed Stahl was one of the most intimidating sluggers of the Deadball Era’s first decade.
Jake Stahl holds a special place in Red Sox history. He remains the first and only Red Sox player who was on two different Boston World Championship teams in two different decades: 1903 and 1912.
Stahl has a measure of immortality as the acknowledged eponym of the term “jaking it”, a baseball phrase for faking an injury to stay out of the lineup, or otherwise loafing.
More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Stahl
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stahlja01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/0e9dab23
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