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Originally Posted by Cusick
Hard to believe, but Cecil "Dolly" Gray once held the "world's home record" by hitting 33 homers in a season. That was in 1913 (in the midst of the Deadball Era) with the Charleston (WV) Senators of the Ohio State League.
There seems to be all sorts of confusion about Cecil Gray's record as he progressed through a minor league career. B-R.com gives the name of the guy who hit 33 homers in 1913 as unknown-first-name Gray. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, by Lloyd Johnson & Miles Wolff (2nd Edition - 1997) credited a Carl Gray of Charleston with leading the Ohio State League that year in batting average (.366) and home runs (33). The newspaper research I've conducted makes clear that it was Cecil Gray.
Cecil was one of those Sharman Society guys who spent some time at the big league level, but never got into a regular season game. He was with the New York Yankees during part of September, 1909.
The photo is from the Cincinnati Enquirer of September 22, 1913, and shows him with the Charleston Senators.
The two B-R.com records which should be merged to show Cecil's minor league career are:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=gray--001cec
https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=gray--012--- |
fixed in the OOTP database
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