Sam Crawford

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Sam Crawford was a Hall of Fame American baseball outfielder renowned as one of the deadliest power hitters of the dead-ball era, especially noted for his record number of career triples.

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Sam Crawford canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
Major League Baseball player
human
professional baseball player
bats left
battingAverage .309
battingTitle American League RBI leader (multiple seasons)
burialPlace Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, United States
surface form: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
careerHits 2646
careerHomeRuns 97
careerRBIs 1525
careerTriples 309
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1880-04-18
dateOfDeath 1968-06-15
debutLeague Major League Baseball
surface form: MLB
debutTeam Cincinnati Reds
era Dead-ball era
surface form: dead-ball era
familyName Crawford
finalTeam Detroit Tigers
fullName Samuel Earl Crawford
givenName Samuel
hallOfFame National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
inductedIntoHallOfFameInYear 1957
knownFor being one of the deadliest power hitters of the dead-ball era
line-drive hitting and gap power
league Major League Baseball
memberOfSportsTeam Cincinnati Reds
Detroit Tigers
MLBRecord most career triples
nickname Wahoo Sam
notableFor record number of career triples in Major League Baseball
occupation baseball outfielder
placeOfBirth Wahoo, Nebraska
surface form: Wahoo, Nebraska, United States
placeOfDeath Hollywood, California, United States
playedFor Cincinnati Reds
Detroit Tigers
positionPlayed outfielder
right fielder
sportNumber various numbers (primarily in the single digits with Detroit Tigers)
sportsDiscipline baseball
teammateOf Ty Cobb
throws right
worldSeriesAppearance 1907 World Series
1908 World Series
1909 World Series

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.