Where does Jake Daubert rank among baseball greats?
Jake Daubert ranks #42 among the Top 50 all-time at 1B. Rankings ⇒ Best Season: 1913 His 1922 season was very good, but in 1913 he was putting up big offensive numbers in a deadball era. He led the loop with his .350 average, and out-pointed Gavvy Cravath for the Most Valuable Player Award. Factoids On August 15, 1914, in a season in which he would win his second straight batting crown, Brooklyn’s Jake Daubert recorded four sacrifice bunts in one game, tying a big league record. Description “Daubert’s intelligence was delightful – he [excelled] in every angle of the game, he could give a newspaper man a better talk than almost any player of the age. Well versed in topics outside baseball, he was an entertaining conversationalist, while hislanguage was meticulously free from profanity or even common slang.” — The Sporting News, October 16, 1924 Born Jacob Ellsworth Daubert was born on April 7, 1884, in Shamokin, PA. Died October 9, 1924, Cincinnati, OH Batted: Left Threw: Left Prima
