HARRY WALKER 1948 1949 Leaf Gum #137 SGC 1 SP SHORT PRINT CHICAGO CUBS

Description: * * * * Item Description: You are bidding on a Professionally Graded 48 LEAF HARRY WALKER 1948 Leaf Gum #137 SGC 1 SP SHORT PRINT CHICAGO CUBS. This is one of the many rare short printed cards from the set. Nice card from a classic vintage set, Thanks for looking and good luck! About the Set: The iconic 1948 Leaf baseball card set is a classic vintage set that features rookie cards of several legendary Hall of Fame players. The set contains 98 cards, each measuring 2 3/8"x2 7/8", and is the first post World War II set produced in color. The cards are "skip-numbered" and the numbering ranges from 1 to 168, even though there were only 98 cards in the set. Rookie cards of Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige are the keys to the set, but it also contains rookie cards of Hall of Famers Stan Musial, Phil Rizzuto, Warren Spahn, Ralph Kiner, Hal Newhouser, Larry Doby, & George Kell. Other key cards include Joe Dimaggio (#1 in the set), Ted Williams, Stan Musial, and tribute cards to Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner. In addition, 49 cards in the set are considered short prints. The short prints range from Hall of Famers such as Paige and Robinson to more average players such as Harry Walker and Dick Sisler, and are all highly sought after. About Us: Welcome to iconsportscards. I specialize in vintage sets and factory certified autograph and memorabilia cards from Hall of Fame greats. I pride myself on customer satisfaction, and providing a quality product at a reasonable price. Best offers are welcome on many of my items, and I'm always happy to help a customer work out a deal, so please do not hesitiate to contact me if you see anything you like from my Ebay Store. Thank you for your time, Chris, iconsportscards All sportscard singles ship for one low rate, no matter how many items you buy! Welcome! 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Harry Walker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harry Walker Walker in 1966 Center fielder / Manager Born: October 22, 1918Pascagoula, Mississippi Died: August 8, 1999 (aged 80)Birmingham, Alabama Batted: Left Threw: Right MLB debut September 25, 1940, for the St. Louis Cardinals Last MLB appearance August 19, 1955, for the St. Louis Cardinals MLB statistics Batting average .296 Home runs 10 Runs batted in 214 Managerial record 630–604 Winning % .511 Teams As player St. Louis Cardinals (1940–1943, 1946–1947) Philadelphia Phillies (1947–1948) Chicago Cubs (1949) Cincinnati Reds (1949) St. Louis Cardinals (1950–1951, 1955) As manager St. Louis Cardinals (1955) Pittsburgh Pirates (1965–1967) Houston Astros (1968–1972) Career highlights and awards 2× All-Star (1943, 1947) 2× World Series champion (1942, 1946) NL batting champion (1947) Harry William Walker (October 22, 1918 – August 8, 1999) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. Known by the nickname "Harry the Hat", he played as a center fielder in Major League Baseball between 1940 and 1955, most notably as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals with whom he won two world championships and was the 1947 National League batting champion. A two-time All-Star player, Walker also played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds. After his playing career, he served as manager for three major league teams between 1955 and 1972. Walker served in the 65th Infantry Division in 1944 and 1945, earning a Bronze Star for valor and the Purple Heart.[1] Early life and family Born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Walker was a member of a baseball family. He was the son of former Washington Senators pitcher Ewart "Dixie" Walker and the brother of Fred "Dixie" Walker, also an outfielder and National League batting champion. He was also the nephew of fellow major league outfielder Ernie Walker.[2] Walker stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg).[3] World Series star, NL batting champ A baseball card of Walker from 1950. "Harry the Hat" got his nickname from his habit during at-bats of continually adjusting his cap between pitches[2]—there were no batting helmets in his day. His batting title came in 1947, when he hit .363 in a season during which he was traded from his original team, the St. Louis Cardinals, to the Philadelphia Phillies.[3][2] The previous year he played for the Cardinals’ 1946 World Series championship team. In the decisive seventh game against the Boston Red Sox, with Enos Slaughter on first base, Walker doubled to left center and Slaughter, running on the pitch and taking advantage of a slow relay from the Red Sox' Johnny Pesky, scored from first base in a "mad dash" with the winning run.[2] He knocked in six runs during that Series, and batted .412.[3] Walker lacked his brother Dixie's power—he hit only 10 home runs in 807 games played over all or parts of 11 seasons in the National League—but he compiled a .296 lifetime batting average and 786 hits with the Cardinals, Phillies, Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds.[3] Harry and Dixie Walker are the only brothers in MLB history to win batting titles, Dixie having captured the National League batting title with a .357 average in 1944 while playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.[4][2] After prepping as a skipper in the Cardinals’ minor league system beginning in 1951, Walker was called up from Rochester in the Triple-A International League on May 28, 1955, to replace Eddie Stanky as Cardinals’ manager.[5] Walker, then 36, was still a playing manager; he hit .357 (5-for-14) in 11 games—10 of which were as a pinch hitter—during July and August.[6] However, the change backfired: the Cardinals fell two places in the standings under Walker, losing 67 of 118 games for a .432 winning percentage.[3] Walker was replaced by Fred Hutchinson at the end of the 1955 season, and it would be another decade before he would again manage in the majors. Manager in Pittsburgh and Houston During that exile, he returned to the Cardinal farm system to manage (1956–58; 1963–64), and served four years (1959–62) as a St. Louis coach. After piloting the Jacksonville Suns to the 1964 International League pennant, Walker was hired[7] by the Pittsburgh Pirates as manager, replacing Danny Murtaugh, who stepped down for health reasons. The Pirates battled for the pennant until the closing days of the 1965 and 1966 seasons—each year finishing third behind the champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the runner-up San Francisco Giants. But when the 1967 Pirates—further strengthened by an off-season trade for standout shortstop Maury Wills—stumbled to a disappointing .500 mark in mid-season, Walker was let go on July 18 in favor of his predecessor, Murtaugh.[8] Less than a week later, Walker was hired to be the organizational batting coach for the Houston Astros.[9] Walker in 1965 Eleven months later, on June 18, 1968, the Astros replaced skipper Grady Hatton[10] with "Harry the Hat". The last-place 1968 Astros were only 23–38 under Hatton, but, featuring players like Joe Morgan, Jimmy Wynn, and Don Wilson, their record under Walker improved to 49–52. In 1969, they contended for the National League West Division title before fading to finish 12 games behind the Atlanta Braves. After back-to-back 79–83 marks in 1970 and 1971, Walker was sacked August 26, 1972, in favor of Leo Durocher; with the Astros at 67–54 and in third place at the time of the firing, it was Walker's best season in Houston. Over his managing career, he won 630 games, losing 604 (.511). After his firing, Walker returned to the Cardinals as a hitting instructor.[11] College head baseball coach Walker served as the head coach for the UAB Blazers baseball team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1979 to 1986, as the program's first coach.[12] In eight seasons, he compiled a record of 211–171, a .552 winning percentage.[12] In 1980, the Blazers finished first in the Sun Belt Conference's North Division in the program's second season, and repeated as division champions in 1981 and 1982.[12] Legacy and death Walker was profiled in Jim Bouton's memoir of the 1969 season, Ball Four. Although many of the players complain that Walker talks too much, Bouton points out that Walker always makes a good point and has good advice.[citation needed] Walker's uniform number 32 has been retired by the UAB baseball program, and he was inducted to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1978.[12] Walker died in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1999 at the age of 80.[13] His interment was at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Leeds, Alabama.[3] He was survived by his wife, Dot, and three daughters.[2] Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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