26 Facts About Lipman Pike

Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike the "Iron Batter", was an American who was one of the stars of 19th-century baseball in the United States.

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Lipman Pike was the first Jewish baseball star and manager in America.

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Lipman Pike was Jewish and was born in New York into a Jewish Dutch family, and grew up in Brooklyn.

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Lipman Pike's mother was Jane, his brothers were Boaz, Israel, and Jacob, and he had a sister Julia.

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Lipman Pike first rose to prominence playing for the Philadelphia Athletics, whom he joined in 1866.

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Lipman Pike brought an impressive blend of power and speed to the team, hitting many home runs as well as being one of the fastest players around.

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The Athletics were very successful, but Lipman Pike was dropped from the team in 1867, because he was from New York, and thus a 'foreigner, ' calling his loyalty into question.

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Lipman Pike moved on to the Irvington, New Jersey club and later in 1867 to the New York Mutuals, always a leading team, where he returned for 1868, having caught the eye of Boss Tweed.

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In 1871, the National Association was formed as the first professional baseball league, and Lipman Pike joined the Troy Haymakers for its inaugural season.

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Lipman Pike was their star and for 4 games was the captain and manager, batting.

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Haymakers revamped their roster for the 1872 season, and Lipman Pike headed for Baltimore, where he played for the Baltimore Canaries.

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Baltimore went bankrupt after the season, so Lipman Pike headed off to captain the Hartford Dark Blues for the 1874 season.

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Lipman Pike abandoned the weak Hartford team after a single season, switching to the St Louis Brown Stockings.

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Lipman Pike hit 12 triples and 22 doubles in what was probably his finest offensive season.

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Lipman Pike continued to produce offensively, notching totals of 133 total bases and 34 extra-base hits.

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Lipman Pike was still a top-quality player, leading the league in home runs for the 4th time in the 1870s.

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Lipman Pike began the season as the 8th-oldest player in the league, and was the 4th-oldest player of the 1878 season.

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Lipman Pike ended up playing a few games for the Providence Grays, and spent the next two years playing for minor league teams.

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Lipman Pike got a brief call-up in 1881 to play for the Worcester Ruby Legs, but the 36-year-old Lipman Pike could no longer play effectively, hitting.

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Lipman Pike was added to the National League blacklist in 1881.

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Lipman Pike turned to haberdashery, the vocation of his father, and spent another 6 years playing only amateur baseball.

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Lipman Pike died suddenly of heart disease at the age of 48 in 1893.

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In 1936, decades after he died, Lipman Pike received one vote in the veterans election for the 1936 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting.

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Lipman Pike was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.

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Lipman Pike was inducted into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame in the Class of 2016.

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