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 1: For third base for 1922, to replace Howard Shanks, Griffith got Donie Bush, who'd been the Tigers' regular shortstop since 1909. The idea was to get Bush to spell Shanks at third and Blackie O'Rourke at short, as the dark-featured Canadian hit only .234 as the regular. Shortstop was Griffith's main concern and in the first month of 1922, he decided to make a pitch for veteran Roger Peckinpaugh, a 31-year-old who had been the best in the league at the position for years. What the bow-legged Peckinpaugh may have lacked in grace, he made up for in range and strength.
The regular Yankees shortstop since 1914, "Peck" had been traded to Boston in another sensational, money-saving deal engineered by the Red Sox's Harry Frazee on December 20, 1921. (Everett Scott, "Bullet Joe" Bush and "Sad Sam" Jones were sent to the Yankees.) Money, however, had not been the only motivation behind that particular deal. Babe Ruth disliked Yankees manager Miller Huggins, and wanted to have Peckinpaugh named manager of the New York club, for which Ruth had now completed his first season. The Yankees had obviously decided not to grant Ruth the power of deciding who his immediate superior was going to be.
In any case, Peckinpaugh became a Red Sox in name only. He'd been on their roster for all of three weeks, obviously never even suiting up for them. On January 10, 1922, he was moved to Washington by Frazee, who had been tempted to accept cash from Griffith. Frazee had thought better of that, however. He was the most unpopular man in Boston, having already expelled, in addition to Bush, Jones, and Scott, the likes of Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Wally Schang. Then, of course, there had been that kid called the Babe. If cash wouldn't do in an exchange for Peckinpaugh, though, Clark Griffith had no star player he could part with.
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01-22-2023, 04:03 AM
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