Edwin Lee Mathews was an American Major League Baseball third baseman.
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27 Facts About Eddie Mathews
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Eddie Mathews played 1,944 games for the Braves during their 13-season tenure in Milwaukee—the prime of Mathews' career.
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Eddie Mathews is regarded as one of the best third basemen ever to play the game.
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Eddie Mathews won the National League home run title in 1953 and 1959 and was the NL Most Valuable Player runner-up both of those seasons.
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Eddie Mathews coached for the Atlanta Braves in 1971, and he was the team's manager from 1972 to 1974.
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Eddie Mathews was six years old when his family moved to Santa Barbara, California.
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Eddie Mathews was brought up to the major leagues in 1952, where he hit 25 home runs, including three in one game versus Brooklyn on September 27.
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Eddie Mathews delighted in occasionally punching the ball through that hole.
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Eddie Mathews made the final putout of the Series, a forceout of Gil McDougald on Moose Skowron's hard-hit grounder.
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Eddie Mathews was regarded as one of the strongest power hitters of his time, often being compared to American League contemporary Mickey Mantle, in terms of power hitting strength.
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Eddie Mathews is one of just two players to homer with a teammate in the same game at least 50 times with two different teammates.
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Eddie Mathews did this with Henry Aaron 75 times and with Joe Adcock 56 times.
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Eddie Mathews was traded to the Houston Astros before the 1967 season.
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In 1971, Eddie Mathews became a coach, and then in the midseason of 1972, manager of the Atlanta Braves.
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Eddie Mathews is one of the few players to play, coach, and manage for the same baseball team.
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Eddie Mathews was the Braves' manager when Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run on April 8,1974.
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Eddie Mathews was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1976.
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In 1982, Eddie Mathews was a minor league baseball instructor for the Oakland Athletics when a spot was found on his lung.
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Eddie Mathews was ultimately admitted to the hospital to investigate it.
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Eddie Mathews was treated and returned to his work with the Oakland organization.
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Eddie Mathews was nominated that year as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
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Eddie Mathews was married to Virjean Lauby in 1954 and they divorced in 1970.
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Eddie Mathews was married and divorced a second time, then married Elizabeth Busch Burke, daughter of brewing executive Gussie Busch, in 1977.
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Eddie Mathews seemed to resent the intrusion of reporters in his personal life, especially early in his career.
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Eddie Mathews gestured with his fist at a reporter when he was in court on charges of reckless driving.
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Eddie Mathews was angered by the presence of the media at his 1954 wedding ceremony at a county clerk's office.
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In February 2001, Eddie Mathews died from complications of pneumonia in La Jolla, California, and was buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery.
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