Hugh Ambrose Jennings was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager from 1891 to 1925.
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36 Facts About Hughie Jennings
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Hughie Jennings was a leader, both as a batter and as a shortstop, with the Baltimore Orioles teams that won National League championships in 1894,1895, and 1896.
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Hughie Jennings was a fiery, hard-nosed player who was not afraid to be hit by a pitch to get on base.
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Hughie Jennings holds the career record for being hit by pitches with 287, with Craig Biggio holding the modern-day career record of 285.
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Hughie Jennings played on the Brooklyn Superbas teams that won National League pennants in 1899 and 1900.
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Hughie Jennings suffered a nervous breakdown in 1925 that forced him to leave Major League Baseball.
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Hughie Jennings died in 1928 and was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945.
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Hughie Jennings worked as a breaker boy in the local anthracite coal mines.
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Hughie Jennings drew attention playing shortstop for a semi-professional baseball team in Lehighton, Pennsylvania in 1890.
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Hughie Jennings was signed by the Louisville Colonels of the American Association in 1891.
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Hughie Jennings stayed with the Colonels when they joined the National League in 1892 and was traded on June 7,1893 to the Baltimore Orioles.
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Hughie Jennings played with the Orioles for parts of seven seasons and became a star during his years in Baltimore.
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Amidst all those great players, Hughie Jennings was appointed captain in 1894, his first full season with the team.
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Fiery Hughie Jennings was known as one of the most fearless players of his time, allowing himself to be hit by pitches more than any other player.
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Hughie Jennings was one of the best fielding shortstops of the era.
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Hughie Jennings led the National League in fielding percentage and putouts three times each.
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Hughie Jennings had as many as 537 assists and 425 putouts in single seasons during his prime.
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Hughie Jennings once handled 20 chances in a game, and on another occasion had 10 assists in a game.
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Hughie Jennings played 6 games for the Superbas in 1903, effectively ending his playing career, with the exception of 9 at bats during his tenure as the manager of the Detroit Tigers.
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Hughie Jennings managed the Cornell University baseball team while studying law and concluded that he was well-suited to being a manager.
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Hughie Jennings continued as a scholar-athlete until the spring of 1904, when he left campus early to manage the Orioles.
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Hughie Jennings continued to work at his law practice during the off-seasons through the remainder of his baseball career.
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In 1907, Hughie Jennings was hired as manager of a talented Detroit Tigers team that included future Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford.
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However, Hughie Jennings' teams lost the 1907 and 1908 World Series to the "Tinker to Evers to Chance" Chicago Cubs and the 1909 Series to Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Hughie Jennings continued to manage the Tigers through the 1920 season, though his teams never won another pennant.
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Hughie Jennings recognized Cobb's talent and his complicated psychological makeup and concluded the best strategy would be to let Cobb be Cobb.
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In 1912, during a game in which "pick-ups" played for the Tigers when the regular team went on strike to protest the suspension of Cobb after an incident involving a fan in the stands whom Cobb assaulted, Hughie Jennings, who sent his coaches in as substitute players, came to bat himself once as a pinch hitter.
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Hughie Jennings signed on as a coach with his old friend, John McGraw, who was managing the New York Giants.
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Hughie Jennings was the best man at McGraw's wedding and a pallbearer following the death of McGraw's 23-year-old wife in 1899.
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McGraw and Hughie Jennings staged a reunion year after year on their birthdays.
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When McGraw became ill, Hughie Jennings filled in as the Giants' manager for parts of 1924 and 1925.
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In December 1911, Hughie Jennings came close to death after an off-season automobile accident.
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Hughie Jennings retired to the Winyah Sanatorium in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Hughie Jennings did return home to Scranton, Pennsylvania, spending much of his time recuperating in the Pocono Mountains.
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In early 1928, Hughie Jennings died from meningitis in Scranton, Pennsylvania at age 58.
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Hughie Jennings was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 as a player.
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