Roger Maxwell "Doc" Cramer was an American center fielder and left-handed batter in Major League Baseball who played for four American League teams from 1929 to 1948.
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11 Facts About Doc Cramer
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Mainstay at the top of his team's lineup for many years, Cramer led the American League in at bats a record seven times and in singles five times.
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Doc Cramer scored 100 runs in a season for the first time in 1933, and hit for the cycle on June 10,1934.
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In 1934, Doc Cramer set a team record among left-handed hitters with 202 hits and topped it in 1935 with 214 – still the Athletics franchise record for a left-handed batter; he finished eighth in the 1935 MVP voting.
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Batting leadoff, Doc Cramer was a spray singles hitter, sometimes stretching them into doubles—although he was a not much of a base-stealer.
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Doc Cramer scored two runs and had one RBI in both Games 5 and 7.
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Doc Cramer was not known as a power-hitter, and liked to tell people about the time he was walked so the opposing pitcher could pitch to Hank Greenberg.
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Doc Cramer was walked to load the bases and set up a force play, but Greenberg followed with a grand slam that won the pennant for the Tigers.
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Doc Cramer rarely struck out, leading the AL four times in at strikeouts-per-at-bats and finishing in the top four five other seasons.
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Doc Cramer had worked as a carpenter before entering the major leagues, and continued to work as a carpenter during the off-seasons of his playing career.
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Doc Cramer died in the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township, New Jersey, at 85 years of age, where a street, Doc Cramer Boulevard, is named in his honor.
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