Beals Becker

Beals Becker

David Beals Becker (July 5, 1886 - August 16, 1943), was a Major League Baseball player from 1908 to 1915.

Beals Becker was born in El Dorado, Kansas in 1886. He attended Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri, and is the only Wentworth graduate ever to play major league baseball. At Wentworth, Becker was a Lieutenant in Company A and was a member of the Bugle Corps. He played left end for the football team, was center on the basketball team, and pitched and played the outfield on the baseball nine. Becker was the recipient of Wentworth's Champion Athlete Award his last year, 1903.

From 1908 to 1915, Becker played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Boston Braves, the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Philadelphia Phillies. Often upset by hometown heckling, Becker played better on the road. He was a fair fielder and, as a left-handed batter who had trouble with southpaw pitching, he was often platooned to face right-handed batters. Becker made a name for himself in the major leagues. He was a hard-hitting outfielder, who four times placed in the top ten in home runs in the National League during the "deadball era." In 1909, he was second in the league with 6 homers, in 1913 he was sixth with 9 homers, in 1914, he was fifth with 9 homers, and in his final season, 1915, Becker was fourth with a career-high 11 homers. In 1910, Becker became the first player to hit two pinch-hit home runs in one season. On June 9, 1913, he set a major league record with two inside-the-park homers in one game. His best all-around year was 1914, when he hit .325, second in the league, with 9 homers and 66 RBI for the Phillies. He played in three World Series, two with the Giants in 1911 and 1912, and one with the Phillies in 1915.

After his major league career ended, Becker bounced around the minor leagues for a number of years, and was a member of the Minor League champion Kansas City Blues in 1923. He died in Huntington Beach, California in 1943 at the age of 57.

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/beckebe01.shtml Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org Retrosheet]


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