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Bergino Baseball Clubhouse

Bergino Baseball Clubhouse

Sports:Baseball

"The Chalmers Race" with author Rick Huhn

2014-10-11
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In 1910, auto magnate Hugh Chalmers offered an automobile to the baseball player with the highest batting average that season.  What followed was a batting race unlike any before or since, between the greatest but most despised hitter, Detroit's Ty Cobb, and the American League's first superstar, Cleveland’s popular Napoleon Lajoie.

The race came down to the last game of the season and became a national obsession.

The Chalmers Race details a story of dubious scorekeeping and statistical systems, of performances and personalities in conflict, of accurate results coming in 70 years too late, and of a contest settled not by play on the field but by human foibles.

Do you know this story of baseball and America?

On October 9, Rick Huhn led our Clubhouse conversation.  Listen in...



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