Howard Earl Averill was an American professional baseball player.
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13 Facts About Earl Averill
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Earl Averill played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1929 to 1941, including 11 seasons for the Cleveland Indians.
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Earl Averill was a six-time All-Star and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1975.
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Earl Averill played for Cleveland for over ten years, and remains the all-time Indians leader in total bases, runs batted in, runs, and triples.
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Earl Averill remains third in all-time Indians hits and doubles, and fourth in all-time Indians home runs and walks.
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Earl Averill famously hit the line drive that broke Dizzy Dean's toe in the 1937 All-Star Game.
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Earl Averill was the first major league player to hit four home runs in a doubleheader on September 17,1930; he was one of the first players to hit a home run in his first Major League at-bat.
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In 1937, Earl Averill experienced temporary paralysis in his legs and was diagnosed with a congenital spine condition.
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Earl Averill was traded to the Detroit Tigers in the middle of the 1939 season.
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Earl Averill recorded five 100+ RBI seasons in his major league career.
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Earl Averill made news of a different sort, according to Baseball Digest, in the early 1960s when he was boarding an airplane to fly to a site for an old-timers' game.
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Earl Averill was mainly a catcher but played left field and a few games at infield.
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