Jack Glasscock

Jack Glasscock
Jack Glasscock
Runs batted in	827
Managerial record	35–35
Teams
	As player Cleveland Blues (1879–1884); Cincinnati Outlaw Reds (1884); St. Louis Maroons (1885–1886); Indianapolis Hoosiers (1887–1889); New York Giants (1890–1891); St. Louis Browns (1892–1893); Pittsburgh Pirates (1893–1894); Louisville Colonels (1895); Washington Senators (1895); As manager Indianapolis Hoosiers (1889); St. Louis Browns (1892);
Career highlights and awards
	NL batting champion (1890);

John Wesley Glasscock (July 22, 1857 – February 24, 1947) was an American

New York Giants and led the league in hits twice; in his final season he became the sixth major league player to make 2,000 hits. He was the first player to appear in over 600 games as a shortstop, and ended his career with major league records for games (1,628), putouts (2,821), assists (5,630), total chances (9,283), double plays (620) and fielding percentage (.910) at the position. When he retired he ranked fifth in major league history in games (1,736) and at bats (7,030), seventh in total bases (2,630) and eighth in doubles

(313).

Early life

Jack Glasscock was born in

Cleveland Blues

.

Major league career

He broke into the

American Association. In 1883, batting third, Glasscock led the team in runs batted in, and paced the NL in fielding again with a .922 average. In mid-1884 he jumped to the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of the Union Association

during that league's only season of play and batted .419 in 38 games.

He returned to the NL with the

Bob Allen set a new NL mark with 500 for the 1890 Philadelphia Phillies. Glasscock led the league in fielding (.901) again in 1888

, and would later break his own NL double play record with 60 in 1889, though Beard set a new major league mark with 63 the same year; Allen broke the NL mark with 68 in 1890.

1889 marked Glasscock's top all-around season as he batted .352 – second in the NL behind

Hall of Famer Amos Rusie

pitching for a local semi-pro team, and the young hurler was promptly acquired for Indianapolis.

When the Hoosiers folded after the 1889 season, his contract – as well as Rusie's – was awarded to the Giants to replace Ward, who was leading many of the sport's top players in a shift to the

Washington Senators

.

Glasscock left the major leagues with a .290 career batting average, 2,040 hits, 27 home runs, 1163 runs, 825 runs batted in and 98

Tommy Corcoran bettered his career fielding percentage by the end of the 19th century. Despite his talents, he received only 2.6% of the vote on his first and only ballot on the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1936.^[4]

Later life

Glasscock returned to Wheeling and played on a minor league team run by Ed Barrow, winning the first pennant of his career; he remained in the minor leagues as a first baseman until 1901, winning an 1896 batting title with a .431 average. After his baseball career ended, he returned to carpentry. He died in Wheeling from a stroke at age 89 in 1947 and is buried in Wheeling's Greenwood Cemetery.