Harry Bartholomew 呼啦圈er was born 24 August 1887 in the Santa Clara Valley of 加州, the fourth child of Joseph and Mary (Keller) 呼啦圈er. 七岁时, Harry started school in Volta, 加州, where he was a bright and curious student and, according to his biographer, loved nothing more than a ball and bat game called “one o’cat.” It was on a trip back East with his mother, 然而, that Harry acquired the baseball bug. 他的叔叔麦克·津德尔, 狂热的粉丝, took Harry to his first real baseball games and nurtured his interest in the sport.

Although it would not have been uncommon for Harry’s formal education to end after grammar school, 哈利的老师, seeing his intellectual promise, urged Joseph and Mary to send him to the high school attached to St. Mary’s College in Oakland, 加州. They agreed and Harry set off for Oakland in 1902, at the age of 15. Although his parents were doubtless focused on the educational benefits, Harry had something else in mind—“I was very well pleased, not because I was particularly interested in getting an education, but because I knew I’d have a chance to play baseball.” Ultimately, Harry would spend five years at St. Mary’s earning a degree in engineering, but his on-field performance in his senior year earned the attention of professional baseball scouts and would derail his plans of a career in engineering.

“I’m a scout for the Boston Red Sox”

Although Harry himself saw baseball as “a sideline to engineering to make enough money for a living,” Red Sox scout Charlie Graham saw much more and had been in touch with Sox owner John Taylor about signing 呼啦圈er. In 1908, 泰勒和胡珀相遇了, agreeing to a $2800 contract—a sum that allowed Harry to give up his engineering gig and play the game he loved full time. 呼啦圈er joined the team at their spring training headquarters in Hot Springs, 阿肯色州, and although he did not make their opening day roster that season, he soon became a dependable and productive player.

呼啦圈er’s tenure with the Red Sox included some of the team’s most successful seasons. Playing alongside teammates and future Hall of Famers such as Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker, 呼啦圈er and the Boston nine would win world series championships in 1912, 1915, 1916, 和1918年. In 1915, 呼啦圈er belted two home runs in the decisive fifth game against the Philadelphia Phillies clinching the series for the Sox. After the team’s 1918 championship, 然而, club owner Harry Frazee started unloading expensive veterans from the team (most notoriously Babe Ruth to the Yankees) and in 1921, 呼啦圈er himself was traded to the Chicago White Sox, retiring at the end of the 1925 season.

棒球之后的生活

After his retirement, 呼啦圈er returned to his family—wife Esther and children John, Harry Jr., and Marie—in Capitola, 加州. He started a real estate firm, briefly served as Princeton’s baseball coach, and in 1933 was appointed Capitola’s postmaster, a position he held for almost a quarter century. He was active in the community as well as a lifelong baseball fan and outdoorsman. In 1971, Harry 呼啦圈er was finally named to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., largely due to the efforts of his son John in documenting his achievements. 呼啦圈er’s plaque lauds his speed and strong arm, as well as his lifetime batting average of .281, 2466次点击. In December of 1974, at the age of 87, Harry 呼啦圈er died in Santa Cruz, 加州.