Sherry Magee

Infobox MLB retired
name=Sherry Magee
position=Outfielder


bgcolor1=#263473
bgcolor2=#A50024
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
birthdate=August 6, 1884
city-state|Clarendon|Pennsylvania
deathdate=March 13, 1929 (aged 44)
city-state|Philadelphia|Pennsylvania
bats=Right
throws=Right
debutdate=June 29
debutyear=1904
debutteam=Philadelphia Phillies
finaldate=September 27
finalyear=1919
finalteam=Cincinnati Reds
stat1label=Batting average
stat2label=Runs batted in
stat3label=Runs scored
stat1value=.291
stat2value=1176
stat3value=1112
teams=
*Philadelphia Phillies (1904-1914)
*Boston Braves (1915-1917)
*Cincinnati Reds (1917-1919)
highlights=
*World Series champion: 1919
*National League batting champion: 1910
*National League RBI champion: 1907, 1910, 1914, 1918
*National League runs scored leader: 1910
*2 seasons with 100+ RBIs
*2 seasons with 100+ runs scored

Sherwood Robert (Sherry) Magee (August 6, 1884 - March 13, 1929) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1904 through 1919, Magee played for the Philadelphia Phillies (1904-14), Boston Braves (1915-1917 [start] ) and Cincinnati Reds (1917 [end] -1919). He batted and threw right-handed.

In a 16-season career, Magee posted a .291 batting average with 83 home runs and 1176 RBIs in 2087 games played.

A native of Clarendon, Pennsylvania, Magee was one of the premier hitters of the Dead Ball Era. He could hit, run, field, and played with intelligence and aggressively. Nevertheless, he has been one of the most underrated ballplayers in major league history.

From 1905 through 1914, Magee finished in the National League Top-10 in home runs and RBIs seven times, including leading the NL in RBIs four times. He led the league for a fourth time in the war-shortened 1918 campaign. Magee also hit over .300 five times, including a batting title to his credit as well, while also being known as one of the finest defensive outfielders of his day. To top it all off, he collected 2,169 hits and 441 stolen bases, including 23 steals of home.

Magee was obtained by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1904 and remained with them for eleven years. His 85 RBIs in 1905 were an NL high. His most productive season came in 1910, when he led the league in batting (.310), RBIs (123), runs (110), total bases (263), on base percentage (.445), slugging average (.507) and OPS (.952), and finished second in doubles (39) and triples (17).

In 1914 Magee led the league in hits (171), doubles (39), RBIs (103), extra-bases (65), total bases (277) and slugging (.509). A year later, he was traded to the Boston Braves. He remained at Boston until the 1917 midseason, when he was sent to the Cincinnati Reds. In 1918, for the fourth time, he led the league in RBIs (76), and became a member of the Reds team that won its first NL pennant in 1919. In that year Magee was seriously ill for two months, and concluded his major league career by pinch-hitting twice during the 1919 World Series.

Magee later played in the minors and also umpired in the New York-Penn League (1927) and the National League (1928).

A victim of pneumonia, Magee died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at age of 44. He is buried at Arlington Cemetery Co in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.

In August 2008, he was named as one of the ten former players that began their careers before 1943 to be considered by the Veterans Committee for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009.

ee also

* Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2009
*List of major league players with 2,000 hits
*Baseball Hall of Fame balloting:
**1937
**1938
**1939
**1942
**1945
**1946
* List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles
* 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 RBIs
* List of Major League Baseball RBI champions
* List of Major League Baseball batting champions
* List of Major League Baseball runs scored champions
* List of Major League Baseball doubles champions
* List of Major League Baseball players with 400 stolen bases

ources

* [http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/Magee_Sherry.stm Baseball Library]
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mageesh01.shtml Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Magee.Sherry.Obit.html The Deadball Era]