OTD in Tigers History- Harry Heilmann edges out Ty Cobb

One of the things that makes baseball great is the oddities of the game.

🐯⚾ For Tigers fans, the 1920s brings us one of those things in HOFer Harry Heilmann, who won four batting titles in the decade.

            1977 Reprint of 1941 Play Ball #171

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📆 On this day in 1925, Heilmann won his third American League batting title, beating out his teammate, the great Ty Cobb, .393, to .389.

Harry's first batting title came in 1923, and the slugging Detroit outfielder would go on to win two more batting championships, in 1927, and 1929.

🐯🏆 Batting titles in 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927...titles all in ODD years,  now that makes quite the oddity. 

🥇 In 1926, Tigers outfielder Heinie Manush led the A.L. in batting average, giving the team half of the decades batting champions in the first 8 years.

                      1934 R318 Batter Up #77  

                           Heinie Manush

The 1920s were a wild and crazy decade, with America having a decade long party that included The Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald,  Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, Prohibition, Women Earning the Right to Vote, and, of course, the one, and only, flapper. 

🗳️ With the right to vote, women immediately felt in control of their own lives, and that included the way they dressed.

The silent movies were very popular during the time, and the most famous actress of the "Roaring 20s"  was Clara Bow.

Known as the "It Girl," Bow was the face of the the 1920s, making 46 silent movies, receiving as many as 45,000 pieces of fan mail in 1927. 

Bow would go on to make 11 "talkies" as well, and still, 100 years later, is still the darling of the 1920s.

What's your favorite thing about the Roaring 20s?

Red Grange, and college football?

Lindy flying across the Atlantic Ocean?

Babe Ruth hitting 60 HRs?

Knute Rockne and Notre Dame? 

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Have a great week, and, as always, Play Ball! 💗⚾💗⚾💗⚾💗⚾💗⚾💗⚾💗⚾💗⚾💗