Jake Beckley

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Jacob Peter Beckley
Jacob Peter Beckley
First base
Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
June 20, 1888 for the Pittsburg Alleghenys
Final game
June 15, 1907 for the St. Louis Cardinals
Career statistics
Batting Average     .308
Home Runs     86
Runs Batted In     1575
Teams
Career highlights and awards

Jacob Peter Beckley (August 4, 1867 - June 25, 1918), nicknamed "Eagle Eye", was a Major League Baseball player at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Hannibal, Missouri.[2]

Beckley played minor league baseball for St. Louis in the Western Association before he was purchased (along with Harry Staley) by the Pittsburg Alleghenys for $4,500 in 1888.[3] After playing two seasons for the Alleghenys, he jumped to the Pittsburgh Burghers,[3] a team in the newly formed Players League. The league lasted only one season, and Beckley spent the next five and a half seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates.[3] On July 25, 1896, he was traded to the New York Giants for Harry Davis and $1,000.[3] Beckley was released by the Giants the following season on May 22, and he signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Reds five days later.[3] He played with Cincinnati through the 1903 season and was purchased by the St. Louis Cardinals on February 11, 1904.[3] Beckley retired after the 1907 season.

Baseball Hall of Fame
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After his Major League career ended, Beckley became a player/manager for Kansas City in the American Association in 1908-1909, managed Bartlesville in the Western Association in 1910, and served as an umpire in the Federal League in 1913.

Beckley died of heart disease[4] in Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 50.[2] He was interred at the Riverside Cemetery in Hannibal, Missouri.[2]

He was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.


  1. ^ a b Jake Beckley. BaseballHallOfFame.com. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.
  2. ^ a b c Jake Beckley Stats. Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Jake Beckley. Retrosheet.org. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.
  4. ^ Jake Beckley. TheDeadballEra.com. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.

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