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9+1⁄2 games, and were 56 games out of first place. As a player, Bottomley batted .239 in 65 games during the 1937 season. [2] Bottomley was among the ten oldest players in the AL that year. [43]

The Browns did not retain Bottomley after the 1937 season, [44] replacing him with Street, who served as his first assistant during the 1937 season. [45] In 1938, Bottomley served as the player-manager of Syracuse. After a bad start to the season, and with team president Jack Corbett not adding capable players, Bottomley resigned and was replaced with Dick Porter. [46] Bottomley also indicated that he did not want to continue playing. [47]

Career statistics

In 1,991 games over 16 seasons, Bottomley posted a .310 batting average (2,313-for-7,471) with 1,177 runs, 465 doubles, 151 triples, 219 home runs, 1,422 RBI, 58 stolen bases, 664 bases on balls, .369 on-base percentage and .500 slugging percentage. Defensively, he recorded a .988 fielding percentage as a first baseman. In 24 World Series games over four Series, he batted just .200 (18-for-90) with one home run and 10 RBI. [48]

Managerial record

Jim Bottomley
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First baseman / Manager
Born:(1900-04-23)April 23, 1900
Oglesby, Illinois, U.S.
Died: December 11, 1959(1959-12-11) (aged 59)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
MLB debut
August 18, 1922, for the St. Louis Cardinals
Last MLB appearance
September 16, 1937, for the St. Louis Browns
TeamYearRegular seasonPostseason
GamesWonLostWin %FinishWonLostWin %Result
SLB 1937 772156.2738th in AL––––
Total772156.27300–

Personal life

Bottomley married Elizabeth "Betty" Browner, who operated a St. Louis beauty parlor, on February 4, 1933. [49] The couple had no children. [2] After he retired from baseball in 1938, Bottomley and his wife moved to the Bourbon, Missouri, area, where he raised Hereford cattle. [2] In 1939, Bottomley became a radio broadcaster, signing a deal with KWK, an AM broadcasting station, to broadcast Cardinals and Browns games. [50] [51]

Bottomley returned to baseball as a scout for the Cardinals in 1955. [52] In 1957, he joined the Chicago Cubs as a scout [53] and managed the Pulaski Cubs of the Class D Appalachian League. While managing in Pulaski, Bottomley suffered a heart attack. The Bottomleys moved to nearby Sullivan, Missouri. [2] Bottomley died of a heart ailment in December 1959. [54] He and his wife Betty were interred in the International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Sullivan, Missouri. [2]

Honors

Bottomley holds the single-season record for most unassisted double plays by a first baseman, with eight. Bottomley is also known as the only man to be sued for hitting a home run ball that hit a fan. The plaintiff was not looking. He had over 100 RBIs in each season from 1924 to 1929. Bottomley was the second player in baseball history to hit 20 or more doubles, triples, and home runs in one season (Frank Schulte being the first) [55] and the first of two players (Lou Gehrig being the other) to collect 150 or more doubles, triples, and home runs in a career. [56]

Bottomley was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame posthumously in 1974 by the Veterans Committee. The Baseball Writers' Association of America charged that the Veterans Committee was not selective enough in choosing members. [57] Charges of cronyism were levied against the Veterans Committee. [58] When Bottomley was elected, the Veterans Committee included Frankie Frisch, a teammate of Bottomley's with the Cardinals. Frisch and Bill Terry, also a member of the Veterans Committee at the time, shepherded the selections of teammates Jesse Haines in 1970, Dave Bancroft and Chick Hafey in 1971, Ross Youngs in 1972, George Kelly in 1973, and Freddie Lindstrom in 1976. [59] This led to the Veterans Committee having its powers reduced in subsequent years. [60]

In 2014, the Cardinals announced Bottomley was among 22 former players and personnel to be inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum for its inaugural class of 2014. [61]

The city park in his adopted home town of Sullivan, Missouri is named for Bottomley. [2] Also the park in his birthplace Oglesby, Illinois. A museum in Nokomis, Illinois, the Bottomley-Ruffing-Schalk Baseball Museum, is dedicated to Bottomley and fellow Hall of Famers Ray Schalk and Red Ruffing, who were also Nokomis residents. [2] [62]

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