Show ZACH WHEAT HAS KEEN BATTING EYE greatest clouting record in past three years the opening of the 1928 baseball season found zach wheat of brooklyn with no sign of diminishing batting skill after 17 brilliant campaigns in the national league as a brooklyn out fielder wheat hag defied the toll of time with the greatest clouting record of his career in the last three seasons averaging approximately and lead ing the fight of the veterans to als place the leader rogers hornsby of st louis jn 1923 he was second with in 1924 third with the same mark and last year he closed at once more in third place zach developed into one of the na atonal leagues greatest batters after he joined the robins in 1909 he had an average of onla 2 as a member zach wheat of the mobile club in the southern association in 24 games near the close of the major league race that year wheat picked up an average of but in 1910 and 1911 he slipped back below the mark A stretch of three seasons slightly above followed only to be inter erupted with his poorest average in 1915 when he slumped to brook lyn fans began to fear an early end ing to his career but again he came back with three successive seasons above SOO the race of 1918 bringing his best figure up to that point after hitting in 1919 wheat began the greatest stretch of batting in his long record hitting successively for averages of and born 37 years ago at hamilton mo wheat has for 17 summers played left field tor brooklyn |