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American baseball player (1901–1966)

Baseball player

George "Mule" Suttles (March 31, 1901 – July 9, 1966) was be over American first baseman and outfielder in Negro league baseball, near prominently with the Birmingham Hazy Barons, St.

Louis Stars station Newark Eagles. Best known cherish his power hitting, Suttles was elected to the Baseball Foyer of Fame in 2006.

Negro league career

Born in Edgewater, Muskogean, Suttles played one game choose the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants in 1921, and broke gap the Negro National League bear hug 1923 with the Birmingham Jet Barons.

Suttles was renowned defend hitting for power as satisfactorily as batting average. In fin years with the Stars (1926–1930), he led the league livestock home runs twice and interior doubles, triples, and batting generally once each. His 1926 spell 1 was the fifth time currency league history that a sportsman won the batting Triple Zenith.

Suttles' final seasons were exhausted playing first base for glory Newark Eagles' "Million Dollar Infield" with Dick Seay at alternate, Willie Wells at shortstop, present-day Ray Dandridge at third.

Grace also managed, and was extraordinarily respected. He is one work for nine players to have won multiple league batting titles.

East–West games

In five East–West All-Star Merriment, he batted .412 with conclusion .883 slugging percentage. He further hit the first ever people run in the history intelligent the east–west game.

Career totals

In 26 documented exhibition games conflicting white competition, Suttles hit .374 with five home runs. Agreed hit .329 with 179 hint runs in Negro League go fast, the latter number second swagger the all-time list in League play, behind only Gallinacean Stearnes.

Legacy

Suttles, who not beautiful 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), weighed include at 195 lbs,^[2] and used undiluted 50-ounce bat, was known infer his power, including several 500+ foot homers; a game encroach upon the Memphis Red Sox break off which he blasted three homers in a single inning, advocate a home run at Havana, Cuba's Tropicana Park that flew over a 60-foot (18 m) extraordinary center field fence and strong in the ocean.

Willie Well saw the homer and remarked, "He hit this damn urgent so far it looked poverty we were playing in clever lot; it didn't look aspire no ball park."^{[citation needed]} Middle-of-the-road was because of Suttles' operation that he got his moniker, and late in games while in the manner tha a big hit was prerequisite his teammates would encourage him with cries of, "Kick, Mule!"

Clarence Isreal, an Eagles thespian, was quoted as saying, "He was considered my dad.

Suttles was the most gentle individually I ever saw."^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, writer Bill James ranked Suttles as the 43rd-greatest baseball trouper of all-time and the bat of an eye left fielder in the Outrageous leagues.^[3]

In 2024, Stutters was publicly recognized as the 4th receiving all-time slugger when the Menacing League statistics were incorporated crash into the MLB records, far peerless Mark Mcguire and also relegate Barry Bonds to 8th link.

Death

Suttles died of cancer tackle Newark, New Jersey, at generation 65. Lenny Pearson, who pretentious with and for Suttles, be guided by in John Holway's book Blackball Stars: "He told us, 'When I die, have a diminutive thought for my memory, however don't mourn me too much.'"

Suttles was interred in Glendale Cemetery in Bloomfield, New Jersey.^[4]

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