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Show FEW OK WHEAT'S DAYS ARE WASTED Veteran Made One Hit a Day for Eighteen Years. Father Time finally cuts them down, but Zack Wheat Is putting up quite a struggle, If his record for 18 years of toil in the big leagues amounts to anything. any-thing. Joining the Brooklyn club In 1000, Zack remained there continuously until un-til recently; when Uncle Wilbert Itob-inson Itob-inson decided Zack would probably go better in another uniform. Then he j signed with the Athletics. In his 18 years at Brooklyn the veteran fly chaser averaged over one lilt a game for the entire 2,318 games he has played in the majors. All in ull, Wheat was at bat 8,8o9 times In those 2,318 games and has rapped forth 2.S04 base hits, scoring 1,255 runs and stealing 203 bases. His batting mark for this period as e Dodger is a staunch .310. And, in his thirty-eighth year, with the Dodgers in 1926, Zack participated in 11 games, finishing the season with a clouting average of .290, which isn't to be sneezed at, all things considered. consid-ered. Wheat is swinging Into his thirty-ninth thirty-ninth birthday, having been born May 23, 1S88, at Hamilton. Mo. In 13 years of his major league career. ca-reer. Wheat enshed in his chips at the end of the season with a mark of .300 or better at the plate. His highest averages were tied up in 1923 and 1924, when he finished with marks of .375. In 1925 he hit .859. In his first year In the big show Wheat finished with a mark of .309 just to show that he was possessed with a pretty sharp batting eye. The greatest number of base hits Zack pounded out in any one of hln IS years in the majors was 221 In 1925. His most stolen bases while In the majors came in 1915, when he swiped 21 sacks. |