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Show HANK GOWDY IS ONE OF "13" Boston Backstop Got His Start In Major Ma-jor League With Giants Lasted Less Than a Year. Hank Gowdy, the Boston backstop, got his major league start with the New York Giants on September 13, 1910, when he covered first base in a game in which the Pirates opposed the McGraw clan. Gowdy's record in the field wa3 ten putouts, one assist and one error. At the bat he didn't get a hit in three times up, the de- .K ft t , 9 y Hank Gowdy. lively of "Babe" Adams being too baffling baf-fling for the future star of the Bean-eaters. Bean-eaters. Gowdy was bought by the Giants from the Dallas club of the Texas league, and had previously played with Lancaster, in the Ohio State league. Hank stuck with the Giants less than a year, and in July, 1911, McGraw swapped him to the Braves for Charley Herzog. His work at the initial bag dAn't make much of an impression on Stallings, and he shipped him off to Buffalo, where he vas put behind the bat, and soon became be-came the star backstop of the international interna-tional circuit. Hank was t ecalled to the Boston club at the close if the international in-ternational season. |