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Harry Hooper of the 1918 Red Sox — 1918: Babe Ruth and the World Champion Boston Red Sox by Allan Wood

Harry Bartholomew Hooper
Right Field, Team Captain

5’10”, 168 lbs., Batted Left, Threw Right
Born: August 24, 1887, Bell Station, California
Died: December 18, 1974, Santa Cruz, California

Debut: April 16, 1909

Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: 1971

Harry Hooper was the senior member of the 1918 Red Sox. It was his tenth year with the club and he was named captain in June. He played in every game during the season, batting leadoff, and assisted manager Ed Barrow in running the team. Hooper was instrumental in the decision to move Babe Ruth into Boston’s everyday lineup.

Hooper played an essential role as player representative during the Red Sox’s and Cubs’s battles over the division of World Series revenues. When the National Commission withheld the Red Sox players’ championship emblems (the equivalent of World Series rings), Hooper led a decades-long fight for official recognition. He petitioned every baseball commissioner from Kenesaw Mountain Landis to Bowie Kuhn, but no baseball official was willing to overturn the National Commission’s December 1918 ruling.

After 1918, Hooper played two more years for the Red Sox before salary disputes with Harry Frazee led to his trade to the Chicago White Sox. Hooper played five years in Chicago and retired after the 1925 season.

Hooper is the Red Sox career leader in triples (160) and stolen bases (375). He played in four World Series (all on the winning side) in seven years. In Game 5 of the 1915 World Series, Hooper became the first player to hit two home runs in a World Series game. The second homer came in the top of the ninth inning and gave Boston a series-clinching 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Batting

Year Ag Tm  Lg   G   AB    R    H  2B  3B  HR  RBI  SB  CS   BB  SO    BA  OBP  SLG   TB  SH HBP
1909 21 BOS AL  81  255   29   72   3   4   0   12  15       16      .282 .337 .325   83   6   5
1910 22 BOS AL 155  584   81  156   9  10   2   27  40       62      .267 .346 .327  191  34   8
1911 23 BOS AL 130  524   93  163  20   6   4   45  38       73      .311 .399 .395  207  13   4
1912 24 BOS AL 147  590   98  143  20  12   2   53  29       66      .242 .326 .327  193  21   7
1913 25 BOS AL 148  586  100  169  29  12   4   40  26       60  51  .288 .359 .399  234  13   5
1914 26 BOS AL 142  530   85  137  23  15   1   41  19  14   58  47  .258 .336 .364  193   7   4
1915 27 BOS AL 149  566   90  133  20  13   2   51  22  20   89  36  .235 .342 .327  185  17   3
1916 28 BOS AL 151  575   75  156  20  11   1   37  27  11   80  35  .271 .361 .350  201  14   1
1917 29 BOS AL 151  559   89  143  21  11   3   45  21       80  40  .256 .355 .349  195  22   6
1918 30 BOS AL 126  474   81  137  26  13   1   44  24       75  25  .289 .391 .405  192  16   4
1919 31 BOS AL 128  491   76  131  25   6   3   49  23       79  28  .267 .374 .360  177  12   5
1920 32 BOS AL 139  536   91  167  30  17   7   53  16  18   88  27  .312 .411 .470  252   5   2
1921 33 CHW AL 108  419   74  137  26   5   8   58  13   7   55  21  .327 .406 .470  197  12   1
1922 34 CHW AL 152  602  111  183  35   8  11   80  16  12   68  33  .304 .379 .444  267  10   5
1923 35 CHW AL 145  576   87  166  32   4  10   65  18  18   68  22  .288 .370 .410  236  14   7
1924 36 CHW AL 130  476  107  156  27   8  10   62  16  13   65  26  .328 .413 .481  229  14   4
1925 37 CHW AL 127  442   62  117  23   5   6   55  12   8   54  21  .265 .351 .380  168  17   5
17 Seasons    2309 8785 1429 2466 389 160  75  817 375 121 1136 412  .281 .368 .387 3400 247  76

Pitching

Year Ag Tm  Lg  W  L  G  GS  CG SHO SV  IP    H  ER  BB  SO   ERA lgERA ERA+
1913 25 BOS AL  0  0  1   0   0   0  0  2.0   2   0   1   0  0.00  2.93   0
 1 Yr WL% .000  0  0  1   0   0   0  0  2.0   2   0   1   0  0.00  3.15   0

Fielding

Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos    G     PO    A    E   DP   FP   lgFP   RF   lgRF
1909 21 BOS AL  OF   74    124   14    7    3  .952  .953  1.86  1.82
1910 22 BOS AL  OF  155    241   30   18    7  .938  .952  1.75  1.78
1911 23 BOS AL  OF  130    181   27   10    1  .954  .951  1.60  1.94
1912 24 BOS AL  OF  147    220   22    9    6  .964  .951  1.65  1.99
1913 25 BOS AL  OF  147    248   25    9    7  .968  .954  1.86  1.96
                 P    1      0    0    0    0  .000  .956  0.00  2.32
1914 26 BOS AL  OF  140    231   23    7    5  .973  .957  1.81  1.93
1915 27 BOS AL  OF  149    255   23    8    7  .972  .959  1.87  2.01
1916 28 BOS AL  OF  151    266   19   10    5  .966  .963  1.89  2.06
1917 29 BOS AL  OF  151    245   20    8    3  .971  .968  1.75  2.18
1918 30 BOS AL  OF  126    221   16    9    8  .963  .963  1.88  2.21
1919 31 BOS AL  OF  128    262   19    6    2  .979  .959  2.20  2.17
1920 32 BOS AL  OF  139    263   22   11    2  .963  .964  2.05  2.19
1921 33 CHW AL  OF  108    182   12    5    3  .975  .959  1.80  2.23
1922 34 CHW AL  OF  149    288   19   12    7  .962  .964  2.06  2.23
1923 35 CHW AL  OF  143    272   15   12    3  .960  .965  2.01  2.29
1924 36 CHW AL  OF  123    251   22    4    8  .986  .970  2.22  2.30
1925 37 CHW AL  OF  124    231   16    6    4  .976  .966  1.99  2.30
Position Total  OF 2284   3981  344  151   81  .966  .960  1.89  2.09
                 P    1      0    0    0    0  .000  .000  0.00  2.30
Overall Total      2285   3981  344  151   81  .966  .960  1.89  2.09
 World Series Batting

Year Team  Opp    G  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA    OBP   SLG  SB
1912 BOS   NYG    8  31  3  9  2  1  0   2  4  4  .290  .371  .419   2
1915 BOS   PHI    5  20  4  7  0  0  2   3  2  4  .350  .409  .650   0
1916 BOS   BRO    5  21  6  7  1  1  0   1  3  1  .333  .417  .476   1
1918 BOS   CHC    6  20  0  4  0  0  0   0  2  2  .200  .273  .200   0
4 World Series   24  92 13 27  3  2  2   6 11 11  .293  .369  .435   3

Minor League Batting

       TM       LG    G    AB   R    H  2B  3B  HR  RBI   TB  SB    BA    SLG
1907 Oakland/
     Sacramento PCL  41   156  27   47   5   4   1        63   5   .301  .404
1908 Sacramento PCL  77   294  47  101   5   4   2       120  41   .344  .408
1927 Missions   PCL  78   218  35   62   9   0   1   19   74   4   .284  .339
1929 Marysville  SV   1     4        2   1   0   0         3       .500  .750
1930 Santa Cruz CSL  20    82  25   39  14   0   0        53   5   .476  .646
1931 Santa Cruz CSL   7    31  10   12   2   0   2        20   2   .387  .645
1933 Santa Cruz CSL  11    37   6   14   0   0   1        17   1   .378  .459
TOTALS              235   822 150  277  36   8   7   19  350  58   .337  .426

Minor Leagues: PCL - Pacific Coast League; CSL - California State League;
SV - Sacramento Valley.

� 1997-20243 by Allan Wood.