finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date death_place finaldate image statlabel debutteam name throws caption birth_place debutdate bats position article_title
1922 29 january 1947 1909 .272 438 54 st. louis cardinals november 10 , 1886 elkins , west virginia september 30 delgainer.jpg batting average hits stolen bases detroit tigers del gainer right del gainer with the boston red sox montrose , west virginia october 2 right first baseman del gainer

del gainer

dellos clinton gainer -lrb- november 10 , 1886 -- january 29 , 1947 -rrb- , nicknamed `` sheriff , '' was a major league baseball first baseman who played 10 seasons in the major leagues .
in his 10 seasons , gainer won two world series rings with the boston red sox and was teammates at different times with ty cobb , babe ruth , tris speaker , and rogers hornsby .
born in montrose , west virginia , del gainer played for the detroit tigers from 1909 to 1914 .
in his first full season -lrb- 1911 -rrb- , gainer hit .302 in 70 games .
the 1911 tigers opened the season with a phenomenal 21 -- 2 record , as gainer was credited with making an impact .
however , a mid-season wrist injury took gainer out of the lineup .
though the tigers were 63 -- 32 on august 1 , gainer had to watch from the bench as the tigers suffered their first losing month of the season , going 11 -- 16 in the month of august and ending up 13 1/2 games behind the athletics at season 's end .
-lsb- http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1911/10101911.htm in 1912 , gainer struggled at bat , hitting .240 in 52 games .
in 1913 , gainer got the job as the tigers starting first baseman , hitting .267 in 105 games .
after only 1 game in 1914 , the tigers placed gainer on waivers -- which gave gainer his shot at back-to-back world series championships with the red sox .
in may 1914 , gainer was selected off waivers by the boston red sox from the tigers .
he played five seasons in boston from 1914 to 1917 and 1919 .
in 1915 , red sox manager bill carrigan chose to platoon gainer with dick hoblitzel at first base .
it was a great success , as the two had a combined ops + of 131 , helping the red sox won 101 games and the pennant .
-lsb- http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/great-platoons-1914-1948/] gainer played in 82 games and hit .295 with 8 triples and 29 rbis for the 1915 world series championship team from boston .
he had the 2nd highest batting average of players who had at least 100 at bats for the red sox -- trailing tris speaker .
he went on to hit .333 and scored a run for boston in the 1915 world series .
gainer also played for the 1916 world series champions and got a key pinch-hit single in game 2 of the 1916 world series .
his hit came in the 14th inning of game 2 , ended the longest world series game in history , and won the game for pitcher babe ruth .
-lsb- http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=del_gainer_1886] in the 1915 and 1916 world series , gainer hit a combine .500 getting 2 hits in 4 at-bats .
in 1917 , gainer hit .308 and had the second highest batting average on the red sox , trailing only babe ruth .
gainer and ruth were also the only red sox players with a slugging percentage above .400 .
after two seasons away from the major leagues , gainer played 43 games for the 1922 st. louis cardinals .
gainer ended his major league career in style , hitting a 3-run home run in his last at bat on september 30 , 1922 .
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