51 Facts About Heinie Manush

Heinie Manush played professional baseball for 20 years from 1920 to 1939, including 17 years in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers, St Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Heinie Manush scouted for the expansion Senators in the early 1960s.

Heinie Manush was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964.

Heinie Manush finished third in the MVP voting in 1932 and 1933 and was the leading batter on the 1933 Washington Senators team that won the American League pennant and lost the 1933 World Series to the New York Giants.

Heinie Manush compiled 7 five-hit games and 52 four-hit games in his 17-year major league career.

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Heinie Manush was a solid defensive outfielder, appearing in 2,008 major league games, 1,381 as a left fielder, 312 as a center fielder, and 153 as a right fielder.

Heinie Manush was born in 1901 at Tuscumbia, Alabama, a city in the Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area that is best known as the hometown of Helen Keller.

Heinie Manush's mother, Kate Manush, was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of German immigrants.

Heinie Manush was one of eight children in the family, seven boys and one girl.

Heinie Manush started high school in Tuscumbia but transferred as a senior to Massey Military Academy, located 80 miles northeast of Tuscumbia in Cornersville, Tennessee.

In 1918, Heinie Manush moved to Iowa to join another brother in the plumbing business.

Heinie Manush then moved to California in March 1919 and played semipro baseball with a club in Los Angeles.

Heinie Manush began his professional career in 1920, playing six games for the Portland Beavers in the Pacific Coast League.

In 1924, Heinie Manush appeared in 120 games, 71 as the starting left fielder, and his batting average dropped 45 points to.

Cobb eventually came to the conclusion that, like Babe Ruth, Heinie Manush was a "natural" hitter rather than a "scientific" one and that it was a mistake to try to change a natural hitter.

In 1926, Heinie Manush took over from Ty Cobb as the Tigers' starting center fielder, a position held by Cobb for 20 years.

Heinie Manush trailed Babe Ruth for the batting championship going into the last day of the 1926 season.

In 1927, Heinie Manush continued as the Tigers' starting center fielder, appearing in 146 games at the position, but his batting average dropped by 80 points from.

Heinie Manush did still rank among the American League leaders with 18 triples, 101 runs scored, 177 hits, 55 extra base hits, and 262 total bases.

The battle for the batting title was the closest in 18 years, and Heinie Manush, who appeared in 19 more games than Goslin, led the league with 241 hits, 68 more than Goslin.

Heinie Manush led the American League in 1928 with 241 hits and 47 doubles and finished among the league leaders with 367 total bases, 20 triples, a 6.

Heinie Manush finished second behind Mickey Cochrane in close voting for the 1928 American League Most Valuable Player award, with Cochrane garnering 53 vote points to 51 for Manush.

Heinie Manush finished in a three-way tie for the league lead with 45 doubles and ranked fifth in the league with 204 hits.

Heinie Manush was a holdout in 1930, refusing to report unless his salary was substantially increased.

Heinie Manush finally signed a contract and reported to the club on March 20,1930.

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Heinie Manush led the American League with 221 hits and 17 triples and ranked third in the league with 115 runs scored and 302 total bases.

Heinie Manush had a 33-game hitting streak in 1933 and finished third in the American League MVP voting.

Heinie Manush had only two hits and two walks, though he scored two runs, in 20 plate appearances during the 1933 World Series.

In Game 4, Heinie Manush was ejected by umpire Charlie Moran after arguing Moran's calling Heinie Manush out on a close play at first base.

The Senators lost the game in the 11th inning, and the ejection of Heinie Manush was bitterly denounced by the Senators after the loss.

Heinie Manush confessed 31 years later to his actual conduct on that day.

Heinie Manush recalled beating out the throw at first, which would have been a turning point in the game with Goose Goslin already on second base.

Heinie Manush was so angry at the call that he had pulled on Moran's rubber bow tie:.

In 1934, Heinie Manush appeared in 137 games, 129 as the starting left fielder.

Heinie Manush was selected to play in the 1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game held on July 10, the second ever All-Star Game.

Heinie Manush was given an outright release by the Red Sox on September 27,1936.

Heinie Manush began the 1938 season with the Dodgers, but his batting slump returned as his average fell to.

Heinie Manush appeared as a pinch hitter in 15 games for the 1938 Pirates, batting.

Heinie Manush returned to the Pirates in 1939, but played sparingly with no hits in 12 at bats.

Heinie Manush appeared in his final major league game on May 22,1939, at age 37, and was released by the Pirates on June 7,1939.

On June 12,1939, Heinie Manush signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs, with whom he played for most of the 1938 season.

Heinie Manush appeared in 66 games for Toronto and compiled a batting average of only.

Heinie Manush spent the next five years as a player-manager in the Piedmont League for the Rocky Mount Red Sox in 1940, the Greensboro Red Sox in 1941 and 1942, the Roanoke Red Sox in 1943.

Heinie Manush scouted for the Boston Braves until 1948, then served as a coach for the Senators during the 1953 and 1954 seasons.

In February 1964, Heinie Manush was elected by the Veterans Committee to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Heinie Manush was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1964, and later posthumously into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1972.

Heinie Manush was married, and he and his wife Betty had three daughters, Shirley who died at age 58 in 1987, Lillis, who died in 1987 at age 56 and Sue McCaw, who lived in Florida and turned 76 in 2009.

Heinie Manush's wife died in June 1949 at age 46 after undergoing an operation at Harper Hospital in Detroit.

Heinie Manush picked up the game of golf in 1935 and he won multiple city golf championships in Sarasota.

Heinie Manush fought an extended battle against throat cancer, was placed in a Sarasota nursing home on March 11,1971, and died there on May 12,1971.

Heinie Manush was interred next to his wife Betty at Sarasota Memorial Park.