Wally Gerber
Baseball Player
1891 – 1951
Who was Wally Gerber?
Walter Gerber was a professional baseball player. He played all or part of fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Browns and Boston Red Sox, primarily as a shortstop. He batted and threw right-handed.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Gerber was a fine infielder with quick hands and a fine throwing arm. From 1914 through 1918 he served as an utility for the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Browns, becoming the everyday shortstop for the Browns during the next nine seasons.
In 1923 Gerber set a major league for shortstops with 48 fielding chances in four consecutive games. Despite he led American League in errors in 1919 and 1920, he settled down to lead the league in double plays four times. Basically a lines drive hitter, his most productive season came in 1923, when he posted career-highs in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, runs batted in and games played. That season he was named to the Babe Ruth All-Star team, the year he won notoriety for his "$18,000 base hit" against the Detroit Tigers, which gave the Browns third place in the American League and a split in the World Series money. He played his final game with the Boston Red Sox in 1919.
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- Born
- Aug 18, 1891
Columbus - Profession
- Lived in
- Columbus
- Died
- Jun 19, 1951
Columbus
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on July 23, 2013
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