Hornsby finished the season with a. 246 average in 57 at-bats while the Cardinals finished in sixth place in the National League ( NL ).

Hornsby finished the season with the first of seven batting titles by hitting. 370, and he also led the league in on-base percentage (. 431 ), slugging percentage (. 559 ), hits ( 218 ), total bases ( 329 ), doubles ( 44 ), and RBIs ( 94 ).

The Cardinals finished in fourth place in 1925, finishing one game over. 500, though the team won 64 games and lost 51 under Hornsby.

Hornsby finished the year with a. 308 batting average and two home runs.

Hornsby finished the 1937 season with a. 321 batting average and 18 hits in 20 games, and was the oldest player in the AL that season.

He finished second overall in the National League behind the 39 home runs hit by Rogers Hornsby.

Crawford finished the season with career highs in batting average (. 305 ) and home runs ( 18 ), joining Hall-of-Famer Rogers Hornsby as the only players in Major League history to increase their batting average and home run totals every year for five straight years.

He finished first in the National League with a. 401 batting average, the first player to hit over. 400 since Rogers Hornsby in 1925.

In 1917 he batted. 302, led the NL in runs a third time and in walks for the first time, and finished second in the NL in total bases behind Hornsby ; he also appeared in his second World Series, but had another poor performance, hitting. 227 as the Giants again lost.

At only 19 years old, Hornsby was the fourth-youngest player in the NL that year.

Hornsby played third base for most of the year.

Hornsby missed several games late in the year with injuries that the Cardinals ( and Hyland ) did not believe to be serious ; as a result he was fined $ 500 ($ today ) and suspended for the last five games of the year.

During post-season negotiations for a new contract, Hornsby demanded $ 50, 000 per year for three years.

Hornsby played in 44 of the first 48 games, but after a disappointing performance he only played himself about half the time for the rest of the year.

That year, Hornsby began operating a baseball school in Hot Springs, Texas, which he ran on and off between 1933 and 1951 with various associates.

On April 21, in his first game of the year, Hornsby hit the final home run of his career in a 15 – 10 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

The next year, in 1951, Hornsby managed the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League.

Hornsby Shire Council is composed of ten Councillors, including the Mayor, for a fixed four year term of office.

* Russell Hornsby as Leon Taylor, # 33-A ninth year running back from USC.

* The symbol of Hornsby Girls High School, Australia, is the " Torch of Knowledge " and words of the school song include " Minerva by our southern seas her sacred groves replanted, with whispering gums to woo the breeze that flows o ' er lands enchanted ; with ageless hills she rimmed her bower, her sunlit shrine of learning, and here we keep through shine and shower the Torch of Knowledge burning ..." ( NOTE on Australianisms: gums here means " gum trees " ( eucalyptus ), not a part of the mouth ).

Pop music was the focus of June 7, with Paul Shaffer hosting performances by Art Garfunkel, Bruce Hornsby, k. d.

In 1968, GEC merged with English Electric, incorporating Elliott Brothers, the Marconi Company, Ruston & Hornsby, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and the Vulcan Foundry, Willans & Robinson and Dick, Kerr & Co.

The park includes areas of land which are part of Ku-Ring-Gai, Ryde, and Hornsby local government areas with small areas of the park in Willoughby, Lane Cove and Hunter's Hill local government area on the banks of the lower reaches of the river.

Along with Ruben Hornsby, Josiah Wilbarger, James Gilleland, Noah Smithwick and John Webber these families comprise the core of the early settlers of eastern Travis County.

A post office was reestablished in the Manor home in 1859 under the name of Grassdale with James Manor again serving as Post Master but it was discontinued during the Civil War when the stage line route shifted its route through Hornsby Bend.

* All You Need Is Ears, by George Martin ( with Jeremy Hornsby )

The band's support tour included a summer stint with the 1997 Furthur Festival, along with Ratdog, Bruce Hornsby and others.

While in the Augusta area, Lymon met and fell in love with Emira Eagle, a schoolteacher at Hornsby Elementary in Augusta.

The Other Ones was an American rock band formed in 1998 by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart, along with part-time Grateful Dead collaborator Bruce Hornsby.

Brennan has collaborated with many other musicians, including Chicane, Alan Parsons, Bono, Robert Plant, Van Morrison, Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers, Bruce Hornsby, Joe Elliott, The Chieftains, Paul Young, Paul Brady, Michael Crawford, Joe Jackson and Ronan Keating.

Following the initial order from Vulcan Foundry, a second order was placed shortly after with Ruston & Hornsby.

Rogers Hornsby was the first to accomplish it, winning his first in 1922 and then leading all major leagues in 1925 en route to his second Triple Crown, both with the St. Louis Cardinals.

In the National League, Hornsby is the leader in home runs, with 42, and Medwick's 154 RBI lead as well.

In 1915, he began his major league career with the St. Louis Cardinals and remained with the team for 12 seasons ; during this period, Hornsby won his first MVP Award and the Cardinals won the 1926 World Series.

Hornsby re-signed with the Cardinals in 1933, but was released partway through the season and was picked up by the St. Louis Browns.

Rogers Hornsby with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1917

He had problems off the field as well ; on June 17, Hornsby hit St. Louis citizen Frank G. Rowe with his Buick when Rowe stepped out in front of traffic to cross an intersection.

The beginning of the live-ball era led to a spike in hitting productivity throughout the majors, which helped Hornsby to hit with increased power during the 1921 season.

The Cardinals held a special day in Hornsby's honor on September 30 before a home game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and they presented Hornsby with multiple awards before the game, including a baseball autographed by President of the United States Warren G. Harding.

Sabermetrician Bill James rated Dick Allen as the second most controversial player in baseball history, behind Rogers Hornsby.

In 1919, after the Cardinals acquired shortstop Doc Lavan, Rickey tried converting Hornsby into a second baseman in spring training.

In 1920, Rickey moved Hornsby to second base, where he remained for the rest of his career.

On defense, Hornsby led all second basemen in putouts, double plays, and fielding percentage.

On August 2, although the Cubs were in second place, Hornsby was released, and Charlie Grimm replaced him as manager.

" Hornsby also holds second place on the unofficial major league record list of " consecutive games with two or more hits " with 13 games, first place honors going to Count Campau's 15-game streak.

Hornsby is only the second right-handed batter in history to hit over. 400 three times and is considered, according to the Los Angeles Times, to be the greatest right-handed hitter in history.

Sandberg was only the third second baseman to hit 40 home runs ; Rogers Hornsby and Davey Johnson hit 42, and no American League second baseman has yet reached forty.

His. 342 batting average is still second only to Rogers Hornsby among right-handed hitters.

Serving as team captain, his 153 games played in the 1921 season tied for second in the NL with several others, behind only Rogers Hornsby.

He also tied teammate Frankie Frisch for second with 121 runs scored, behind only Hornsby, while his 193 hits were eighth-best and his. 389 on-base percentage was ninth-best in the NL.

In the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James named Morgan the best second baseman in baseball history, ahead of # 2 Eddie Collins and # 3 Rogers Hornsby.

Bill James tells a great story about how one time Jon Miller showed Morgan Bill ’ s New Historical Baseball Abstract, which has Morgan ranked as the best second baseman of all time, ahead of Rogers Hornsby.

His. 466 slugging average then placed him fifth among second basemen, behind Hornsby (. 577 ), Gehringer (. 480 ), Lazzeri (. 467 ) and Nap Lajoie (. 466 ), and only Hornsby had more homers among second basemen.

Hornsby and the Range's second album, Scenes From The Southside ( on which Peter Harris replaced Mansfield ) was released in 1988.

Bell belted 36 of his 38 homers from his new position, a total exceeded only by Rogers Hornsby, Davey Johnson and Ryne Sandberg among second basemen.

Huggins had coached the young Rogers Hornsby, helping him to correct his batting stance, and Hornsby duly succeeded him as the team's starting second baseman in 1917 as Huggins ended his playing career.