Born:(1903-05-11)May 11, 1903 Fowlerville, Michigan, U.S.
Died: January 21, 1993(1993-01-21) (aged 89) Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 22, 1924, for the Detroit Tigers
Last MLB appearance
September 27, 1942, for the Detroit Tigers
MLB statistics
Batting average
.320
Hits
2,839
Home runs
184
Runs batted in
1,427
Teams
Detroit Tigers (1924–1942)
Career highlights and awards
6× All-Star (1933–1938)
World Series champion (1935)
AL MVP (1937)
AL batting champion (1937)
AL stolen base leader (1929)
Detroit Tigers No. 2 retired
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1949
Vote
85.0% (sixth ballot)
Charles Leonard Gehringer (May 11, 1903 – January 21, 1993), nicknamed "the Mechanical Man", was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played for the Detroit Tigers for 19 seasons from 1924 to 1942. He compiled a .320 career batting average with 2,839 hits and 1,427 runs batted in (RBIs). He had seven seasons with more than 200 hits and was the starting second baseman and played every inning of the first six All Star Games. He won the American League batting title in 1939 with a .371 average and won the American League Most Valuable Player Award. He helped lead the Tigers to three American League pennants (1934, 1935, and 1940) and the 1935 World Series championship.
Gehringer was also one of the best fielding second basemen in history. At the time of his retirement, he ranked first in Major League Baseball (MLB) history with 1,444 double plays turned at second base (now seventh in MLB history).[1] He remains among MLB's all-time leaders with 7,068 assists at second base (second in MLB history) and 5,369 putouts (sixth in MLB history).[2][3]
Gehringer later served as the Tigers general manager during the 1952 and 1953 seasons. After his playing career ended, he operated a company serving as an agent for manufacturers of automobile interior furnishings. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949 and had his jersey (No. 2) retired by the Tigers in 1983.
^"Career Leaders & Records for Double Plays Turned as 2B". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
^"Career Leaders & Records for Assists as 2B". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
^"Career Leaders & Records for Putouts as 2B". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
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