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Kiki Cuyler
Outfielder
Born: August 30, 1898
Died: February 11, 1950 (aged 51)
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 29, 1921 for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Final game
September 14, 1938 for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Career statistics
Batting average	.321
Home runs	128
Runs batted in	1065
Teams
Pittsburgh Pirates (1921-1927) Chicago Cubs (1928-1935) Cincinnati Reds (1935-1937) Brooklyn Dodgers (1938)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion: 1925 National League pennant: 1929, 1932 National League All-Star: 1934 2-time National League runs scored leader 4-time National League stolen base leader 10 seasons with a .300+ batting average 3 seasons with 100+ RBI 5 seasons with 100+ runs scored
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Elected	1968
Election Method	Veteran's Committee

Hazen Shirley "Kiki" Cuyler (b. August 30, 1898, Harrisville, Michigan - d. February 11, 1950, Harrisville, Michigan) was a Major League Baseball right fielder from 1921 until 1938. His nickname "Kiki" (pronounced /ˈkaɪkaɪ/ "cuy-cuy", to rhyme with "eye") reportedly came from the way in which he once stuttered his own last name.

Cuyler broke into the big leagues in 1921 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and became a fixture in the lineup in 1924. Playing for the Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers over the next decade and a half, Cuyler established a reputation as an outstanding hitter with great speed. He regularly batted .350 or higher and finished with a .321 lifetime batting average. In 1925 Cuyler combined this great hitting with 18 home runs and 102 RBI. Cuyler's Pirates won the World Series that year, the only time in his career he would be part of a championship team.

In 1927, Cuyler was benched for nearly half the season because of a dispute with first-year manager Donie Bush. The Pirates went again the the World Series, but Cuyler did not play. That November, Cuyler was traded to the Chicago Cubs for Sparky Adams and Pete Scott.

Cuyler led the league in stolen bases four times and finished his career with 328 steals.

After his illustrious career as a player, Cuyler coached in the minor leagues, winning the Southern Association Championship in 1939 under Joe Engel and the Chattanooga Lookouts and the Washington Senators at Engel Stadium, with one of the only fan-owned franchises in the nation.

Cuyler was selected posthumously to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1968 by the Veterans Committee along with contemporary outfielder Goose Goslin, who also played from 1921-1938. In 1981, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.

Cuyler was buried in Harrisville, Michigan.

Tuck Stainback, Buddy Hassett, Kiki Cuyler, and first base coach Babe Ruth in 1938.

* List of major league players with 2,000 hits

• List of Major League Baseball players with 100 triples
• List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 runs
• List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 RBI
• Hitting for the cycle
• List of Major League Baseball runs scored champions
• List of Major League Baseball stolen base champions
• List of Major League Baseball doubles champions
• Major League Baseball titles leaders

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
• baseballhalloffame.org – Hall of Fame biography page