Clifford Carlton "Gavvy" Cravath Game Used Bat & T206 Tobacco Card Phillies

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Clifford Carlton “Gavvy” Cravath
(March 23, 1881 – May 23, 1963), also nicknamed “Cactus”, was an American
right fielder
and right-handed batter in
Major League Baseball
who played primarily for the
Philadelphia Phillies
. One of the sport’s most prolific power hitters of the
dead-ball era
, in the eight years from 1913 to 1920 he led the
National League
in
home runs
six times, in
runs batted in
,
total bases
and
slugging percentage
twice each, and in
hits
,
runs
and
walks
once each. He led the NL in several offensive categories in
1915
as the Phillies won the first pennant in the team’s 33-year history, and he held the team’s career home run record from 1917 to 1924. He is one of eight players to lead the majors in home runs for a season six times in a career.
[1]However, he played his home games at
Baker Bowl
, a park that was notoriously favorable to batting statistics. Cravath hit 92 career homers at Baker Bowl while he had 25 homers in all his games away from home. Moreover, he was an exceptionally slow base runner; so much so, in fact, that it was actually Cravath about whom sportswriter
Bugs Baer
famously wrote, “His head was sure full of larceny, but his feet were honest,”
[2]a distinction which, along with Cravath’s extreme lack of foot speed, has long been mistakenly ascribed to
Ping Bodie
.
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