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Originally Posted by GeoPoto
The 1906 Washington baseball team lost 95 games and finished next-to-last in the American League. The team was led by player-manager Jake Stahl. Stahl's managerial record across two seasons in Washington and another two in Boston is not impressive. And though he was a World Series champion in 1912 and led the American League in home runs in 1910, he is best remembered as the acknowledged eponym of the term "jaking it", a baseball phrase for faking an injury to stay out of the lineup, or otherwise loafing.
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Washington's prospects took a decided turn for the better the next year with the arrival of a 19 year-old pitcher out of the bush leagues of Idaho named Walter Johnson. He got there too late for the 1907 Sporting Life premium, but he is in the 1908 version, which might be his first appearance on a card or premium.