Hack Wilson

Lewis Robert "Hack" Wilson was an American Major League Baseball player who played 12 seasons for the New York Giants, Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. Despite his diminutive stature, he was one of the most accomplished power hitters in the game during the late 1920s and early 1930s. His 1930 season with the Cubs is widely considered one of the most memorable individual single-season hitting performances in baseball history. Highlights included 56 home runs, the National League record for 68 years; and 191 runs batted in, a mark yet to be surpassed. "For a brief span of a few years," wrote a sportswriter of the day, "this hammered down little strongman actually rivaled the mighty Ruth."

26 April 1900

Born on the same birth date (26 April 1900): Charles Richter • Eva Aschoff

Born on the same birth day (26 April): Charles Goodyear (politician) • Debra Wilson • Eva Aschoff • Georgios Kostikos (footballer, born 1958) • Gerard Cafesjian • I. M. Pei • James Rouse • John Battle (politician) • John Corabi • Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs • Naoki Tanaka (comedian) • Roxana Saberi • Sal Maglie • Virgil Trucks

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