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Show ONLY UNASSISTED TRIPLE PLAY IN 1925 Made by Glenn Wright, Shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Pirates. The unassisted triple play made its rare appearance In 1925, after the year 1924 had gone into the records without one in the major leagues. Glenn Wright of the champion Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Pirates was the hero of this baseball novelty. It happened on May 7 in a game with the Cardinals and did not show again this year. The rarity of Wright's feat may be gathered gath-ered from the fact that there were only seven three-ply killings in the majors in 1925 six in t lie National and one in the American and Wright's unassisted play was one of the seven. Wright turned the trick in the ninth Inning. With C'ooncy on second and Hornsby on first, Eottoinley lined to Wright. He touched second, retiring Coonev, who had started for third, and then he touched Hoi-nsby. who had dashed for the keystone sack. The Phillies and the Cubs each engineered en-gineered two triple plays. In neither case did the same player appear both times. The Robins were the victims of a triple play on three occasions. Pittsburgh. St. I.ou's and Boston were the other victims in the National league. The New York Giants executed exe-cuted one, a lengthy affair, in which the hall passed from Jackson to Gowdy. to Groh to Jackson, to Kelly and finally to Terry for the third put-out. put-out. The Pewell brothers. Luke and Joe, and Spurgeon turned in the only-triple only-triple play in the American league, the Athletics being the vbiims. The triple nlay records follow: National League. Mny 1 SchuHz. llerillne and Fonseca-(PhiladelphhO Fonseca-(PhiladelphhO vs. Unstnn. M.iy 7 Wrifcht, unassisted (Pittsburgh) (Pitts-burgh) vs. St. Louis. June 5 Friher.br Mid .Maranville (ChieaKo) vs. Brooklyn Jane 12 Jackson. Howdy. Oroh, Jackson, Kelly and Terry (New York) vs. riushunrh. June 20 Carlson. Sind and Hawks (Philadelphia) vs. Rrooklyn. Sep'oniher 22 Ad.iins, Slaley, Grimm nd Hartnett (Chicago) vs. Brooklyn. American Lcrgtie. August 2i Rnureun L Powell and J. Sewell (Clevolan-',) vs. Philadelphia. |