![If you have $17,000 laying around and you don’t feel like donating it to the very worthy Build a Robocop Statue fund, then you may be interested in purchasing Reds first baseman Jake Daubert’s 1919 World Series pin.
Daubert, despite being on teams filled with more famous players like Edd Roush and Heinie Groh (who may have a more hilarious name than Jack Glasscock), was actually the team’s captain during his tenure with the Reds. It’s a shame that Daubert isn’t more recognized since he is second all-time in the most important of statistics, the sacrifice bunt, trailing only Eddie Collins. In fact, even I had no idea who Daubert was before reading the article, something that fills me with immense shame.
Get ready for a real hit to your endorphins though:
“[Reds historian Greg] Rhodes discovered in some old articles in The Sporting News that Daubert was so well-respected by his Reds teammates that they wanted him to be named manager when skipper Pat Moran died in spring training, 1924.
The Reds brass went in another direction, and six months later, Daubert was dead, too, a victim of complications from appendicitis.”
So next time you see your team’s first baseman lay down a sacrifice bunt, don’t yell at the TV and say that’s costing your team runs. Instead realize that he is only honoring the memory the of the late, great Jake Daubert.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh59s5CQxE1qbc6b5o1_400.jpg)
If you have $17,000 laying around and you don’t feel like donating it to the very worthy Build a Robocop Statue fund, then you may be interested in purchasing Reds first baseman Jake Daubert’s 1919 World Series pin.
Daubert, despite being on teams filled with more famous players like Edd Roush and Heinie Groh (who may have a more hilarious name than Jack Glasscock), was actually the team’s captain during his tenure with the Reds. It’s a shame that Daubert isn’t more recognized since he is second all-time in the most important of statistics, the sacrifice bunt, trailing only Eddie Collins. In fact, even I had no idea who Daubert was before reading the article, something that fills me with immense shame.
Get ready for a real hit to your endorphins though:
“[Reds historian Greg] Rhodes discovered in some old articles in The Sporting News that Daubert was so well-respected by his Reds teammates that they wanted him to be named manager when skipper Pat Moran died in spring training, 1924.
The Reds brass went in another direction, and six months later, Daubert was dead, too, a victim of complications from appendicitis.”
So next time you see your team’s first baseman lay down a sacrifice bunt, don’t yell at the TV and say that’s costing your team runs. Instead realize that he is only honoring the memory the of the late, great Jake Daubert.
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