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Player #95A: Roger T. Peckinpaugh. Shortstop for the Washington Senators in 1922-1926. 1,876 hits and 205 stolen bases in 17 MLB seasons. 1924 World Series champion. His best season at the plate was probably 1921 as he helped the New York Yankees reach the World Series and posted a .380 OBP with 128 runs scored and 72 RBIs in 694 plate appearances. He debuted with the Cleveland Naps in 1910 and finished his playing career with the Chicago White Sox in 1927. He managed the New York Yankees in 1914 and the Cleveland Indians in 1928-1933 and 1941.

Deveaux explains how complex (and expensive) Griffith's acquisition of Peckinpaugh was Part 2: It was Griff's inside knowledge which ultimately enabled him to get Peckinpaugh for the Senators. The A's had a fine young third baseman named Joe Dugan who had begun showing decent power as a 24-year-old the previous season. But there was a problem with Dugan, for which he had earned the nickname of "Jumping Joe". He often got homesick and would jump the ballclub, without notice, to return to his hometown of Boston to visit family and friends. Now if Griffith could get Dugan from Connie Mack, he could probably turn right around and send him home for good.

Clark Griffith's complex strategy to acquire Roger Peckinpaugh succeeded, but it cost him dearly. Griffith surrendered three players, including incumbent shortstop Blackie O'Rourke, and infielder Edmund "Bing" Miller who had hit .288 with the Senators in '21, his only season in Washington. In Miller's case, Washington made a mistake. Over the next nine years, his lowest batting average as a regular in Philadelphia would be .299. But at the time of the trade, what hurt Griffith the most was the $50,000 check he ultimately had to write Frazee in order to get Peckinpaugh for his ballclub. . .

. . . The new Peckinpaugh-Harris-Judge combination would become one of the most lethal rally-killing trios in history. As Clark Griffith so succinctly put it, whenever the ball was hit in the direction of any one of these guys, everybody was out. (The Washington Senators by Tom Deveaux.)

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