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Jimmy Ryan (baseball)
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- Chicago White Stockings ({{Baseball year|1885}}â{{Baseball year|1889}})
- Chicago Pirates ({{Baseball year|1890}})
- Chicago Colts / Orphans ({{Baseball year|1891}}â{{Baseball year|1900}})
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- NL home run leader (1888)
- Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame
Baseball career
A native of Clinton, Massachusetts, Ryan started his major league career with Chicago of the National League (NL) in 1885. He played for the team until 1900, except for the 1890 season when he played for the Chicago Pirates of the Players' League."Jimmy Ryan Stats". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved November 4, 2021.Ryan had his best season in 1888, leading the NL in hits (182), doubles (33), home runs (16), total bases (283), and slugging percentage (.515). He was also second in batting average (.332), extra-base hits (59) and runs scored (115). During that season, Ryan hit for the cycle on July 28. He also appeared in that game as a pitcher, becoming the first player in major league history to hit for the cycle and pitch in the same game. The White Stockings beat the Detroit Wolverines, 21â17.Larry Twitchell of Cleveland pitched while hitting for the cycle on August 15, 1889.Ryan was the most severely injured player when the Chicago team was involved in a train wreck at Lindsey, Ohio on August 6, 1893 when their sleeper cars derailed and crashed into a freight train that was stopped on a siding, resulting in three fatalities. Ryan's legs were shattered, and for weeks there were doubts that he would even be able to walk again, resulting in a $10,000 settlement from the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. As late as the following January, it was still considered unlikely that he would be able to resume his career, but he returned to post a career-high .357 batting average. Almost exactly one year after the wreck, on August 5, 1894, Ryan and teammate Walt Wilmot were credited with saving hundreds of lives when a fire broke out in the stands at West Side Park; the two players used bats to break down barbed-wire fencing, allowing fans to escape onto the field.In 1900, Ryan broke Tom Brown's career record of 348 assists by an outfielder. Ryan finished his career with 375 assists. He held the record until Tris Speaker broke it in 1924. Ryan ended his major league career with the Washington Senators of the American League in 1902â1903.Career statistics
He was a career .308 hitter with 118 home runs and 1,093 runs batted in in 2,014 games. As a pitcher, he compiled a 6â1 record with a 3.62 earned run average and 43 strikeouts in 117 innings pitched. Ryan is 36th in runs scored, with him being 7th among 19th century players; the six ahead of him are each in the Baseball Hall of Fame.Player profile
On the tough side, Ryan was one of the few players to punch a reporter at least twice. After his first episode, in 1887, Charlie Seymour of the Chicago Herald wrote, "Ryan slugged the magnificent Chicago reporter in Pittsburg[h] the other day." In the other, in 1892, he took exception to George Beachel of the Chicago Daily News. In the clubhouse after a game, Ryan "picked a quarrel with [Beachel], and then attacked him, using him up pretty badly. No arrests have been made." In 1896, he punched a train conductor after losing his place and his teammates had gone to bed. A conductor who intervened was "called down by Mr. Ryan, who got in one upper cut before [his longtime-captain manager Cap] Anson stopped the fun," wrote Tim Murnane of the Boston Globe.BOOK, Rosenberg, Howard W., Cap Anson 4: Bigger Than Babe Ruth: Captain Anson of Chicago, Tile Books, 2006, 560, 978-0-9725574-3-6,weblink October 16, 2006, August 27, 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180827025911weblink">weblink dead, , p. 268. In the 2001 book The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, writer Bill James ranked Ryan as the 26th greatest center fielder of all time.James, Bill (2001). The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. p. 739.Personal life and death
Ryan died in Chicago at age 60. He was married twice and left no children. He was buried in an unmarked grave until 2022 until the help of the SABRâGrave Marker Project helped efforts to lend a proper gravestone.WEB,weblink The Cubs dedicate a headstone for 19th-Century star Jimmy Ryan, December 3, 2022,See also
- List of Major League Baseball career hits leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career triples leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career runs scored leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders
- List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders
- List of Major League Baseball annual doubles leaders
- List of Major League Baseball annual home run leaders
- List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle
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