The only Known Heinie Zimmerman Single Signed Baseball 1912 Batting Title JSA

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The only Known Heinie Zimmerman Single Signed Baseball 1912 Batting Title JSA

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The only Known Heinie Zimmerman Single Signed Official 1948 National League (Ford Frick)Baseball.

Comes with full letter JSA COA.

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Henry Zimmerman(February 9, 1887 March 14, 1969), known as “Heinie” or “The Great Zim”, was aprofessional baseball infielder. Zimmerman played inMajor League Baseball for theChicago Cubs andNew York Giantsfrom 1907 to 1919. During his playing career, Zimmerman was primarily athird baseman, although he also played extensively atsecond base. He was born and died inThe Bronx, New York City, and was of German ancestry. He is buried inWoodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.

Zimmerman was suspended from theNew York Giants in 1919, along with his friendHal Chase, for allegedly attempting to convince other players to fix games. Based on testimony by Giants managerJohn McGraw during theBlack Sox Scandal hearings, Zimmerman and Chase were both indicted for bribery. Zimmerman denied McGraw’s accusations, and neither he nor Chase was ever proven to be directly connected to the Black Sox, but based on a long-term pattern of corruption both were permanently banned from baseball by JudgeKenesaw Mountain Landis,Commissioner of Baseball. According to some historians, he had been informally banned after the Giants released him.Baseball statistician Bill James has suggested that the Giants’ loss to theChicago White Sox in the1917 World Series may have been partial motivation for Zimmerman’s suspension. Zimmerman batted .120 in the Series.

However, he is best known for an infamous rundown in the decisive game. In the fourth inning, the game was scoreless when Chicago’sEddie Collins was caught betweenthird base andhome plate.Catcher Bill Rariden ran up the line to start a rundown, expectingpitcher Rube Benton orfirst baseman Walter Holke to cover the plate. However, neither of them budged, and Collins blew past Rariden to score what turned out to be the Series-winning run (the White Sox won 4-2). With no one covering the plate,third baseman Zimmerman was forced to chase Collins, pawing helplessly in the air with the ball in a futile attempt to tag him. As pointed out by researcher Richard A. Smiley inSABR’s 2006 edition ofThe National Pastime, Zimmerman was long blamed for losing the game, although McGraw blamed Benton and Holke for failing to cover the platea serious fundamental error in baseball. The play was actually quite close, as action photos show Zimmerman leaping over the sliding Collins. A quote often attributed to Zim, but actually invented by writerRing Lardner some years later, was that when asked about the incident Zim replied, “Who the hell was I supposed to throw to, Klem (umpire Bill Klem, who was working the plate)?”

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