Beals Becker
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David Beals Becker (July 5, 1886 – August 16, 1943) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1908 to 1915.[1]
Biography
Becker was born in
Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri and is the only Wentworth graduate ever to play major league baseball. At Wentworth, Becker was a Lieutenant in Company A and was a member of the Bugle Corps
. He played left end for the football team, was center on the basketball team, and pitched and played the outfield on the baseball nine. Becker was the recipient of Wentworth's Champion Athlete Award in 1903, his last year.
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From 1908 to 1915, Becker played for the
runs batted in for the Phillies. He played in three World Series
, two with the Giants in 1911 and 1912, and one with the Phillies in 1915.
In 876 games over eight seasons, Becker posted a .276
bases on balls, .335 on-base percentage and .397 slugging percentage. He finished his career with a .954 fielding percentage
playing at all three outfield positions.
After his major league career ended, Becker bounced around the minor leagues for a number of years and was a member of the minor league champion Kansas City Blues in 1923. He died in Huntington Park, California in 1943 at the age of 57.
On episode #1309, (airing March 23, 2009) of
PBS's Antiques Roadshow, a man who claimed to be Becker's great-great nephew brought two photographs and a uniform belonging to Becker to the show for appraisal. The items were valued at US$50,000.[2]
References
- ^ "Beals Becker Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
- ^ "Beals Becker Uniform & Photographs". Archived from the original on March 27, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2009.
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