Jake Beckley

Infobox MLB retired|
name=Jake Beckley


position=First baseman
birthdate =birth date|1867|8|4
city-state|Hannibal|Missouri
deathdate =death date and age|1919|6|25|1867|8|4
city-state|Kansas City|Missouri
number=n/a
bats=Left
throws=Left
debutdate=June 20
debutyear=by|1888
debutteam=Pittsburg Alleghenys
finaldate=June 15
finalyear=by|1907
finalteam=St. Louis Cardinals
statyear=Career
statyear=Career
stat1label=Batting average
stat1value=.308
stat2label=Hits
stat2value=2930
stat3label=Runs batted in
stat3value=1575
teams=
*Pittsburg Alleghenys/Pirates (by|1888-by|1889)
*Pittsburgh Burghers (by|1890)
*Pittsburg Alleghenys/Pirates (by|1891-by|1896)
*New York Giants (by|1896-by|1897)
*Cincinnati Reds (by|1897-by|1903)
*St. Louis Cardinals (by|1904-by|1907)
highlights=
*1st all-time: Putouts by a first baseman (23,709)cite web| title = Jake Beckley | work = BaseballHallOfFame.com | url=http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers/detail.jsp?playerId=110776| accessdate = 2008-09-08 ]
*2nd all-time: Games played at first base (2,376)
hofdate=by|1971
hofmethod=Veteran's Committee

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.cite web| title = Jake Beckley Stats | work = Baseball-Almanac.com | url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=becklja01 | accessdate = 2006-11-21 ]

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.cite web| title = Jake Beckley | work = Retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pbeckj103.htm | accessdate = 2006-11-21 ] After playing two seasons for the Alleghenys, he jumped to the Pittsburgh Burghers, 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. On July 25, 1896, he was traded to the New York Giants for Harry Davis and $1,000. 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. He played with Cincinnati through the 1903 season and was purchased by the St. Louis Cardinals on February 11, 1904. Beckley retired after the 1907 season.

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 He was interred at the Riverside Cemetery in Hannibal, Missouri.

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

ee also

* List of major league players with 2,000 hits
* 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 RBI
* Major League Baseball hitters with three home runs in one game
* List of Major League Baseball triples champions
* List of Major League Baseball triples records

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