Born:(1903-12-06)December 6, 1903 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died: August 6, 1946(1946-08-06) (aged 42) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 13, 1926, for the New York Yankees
Last MLB appearance
June 7, 1939, for the New York Giants
MLB statistics
Batting average
.292
Home runs
178
Runs batted in
1,191
Teams
New York Yankees (1926–1937)
Chicago Cubs (1938)
Brooklyn Dodgers (1939)
New York Giants (1939)
Career highlights and awards
All-Star (1933)
5× World Series champion (1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937)
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1991
Election method
Veterans Committee
Anthony Michael Lazzeri (December 6, 1903 – August 6, 1946) was an American professional baseball second baseman during the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. He was part of the famed "Murderers' Row" Yankee batting lineup of the late 1920s (including the 1927 team), along with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Bob Meusel.
Lazzeri was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He dropped out of school to work with his father as a boilermaker, but at the age of 18, began to play baseball professionally. After playing in minor league baseball from 1922 through 1925, Lazzeri joined the Yankees in 1926. He was a member of the original American League All-Star team in 1933. He was nicknamed "Poosh 'Em Up" by Italian-speaking fans, from a mistranslation of an Italian phrase meaning to "hit it out" (hit a home run).
Lazzeri is one of only 14 major league baseball players to hit for the natural cycle (hitting a single, double, triple and home run in sequence) and the only player to complete a natural cycle with a grand slam.[1] He also holds the American League record for the most RBI in a single game, with 11 on May 24, 1936. In that same 1936 game, he became the first major league player to hit two grand slams in one game. Lazzeri was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1991.
^"Hitting for the Cycle Records by Baseball Almanac". Baseball-almanac.com. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
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met and played baseball with fellow San Franciscan and future teammate TonyLazzeri. He attended Lowell High School in his hometown, but dropped out at the...
eventually be elected to the Hall of Fame: Earle Combs, Lou Gehrig, TonyLazzeri, Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, Leo Durocher, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and...
over the two-day stretch and did not homer in one of the games. Tied by TonyLazzeri (May 23–24, 1936) Grand slams, two consecutive games (homering in each...
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Colón and drove in 10 runs. The 10 RBIs were the most by a Yankee since TonyLazzeri established the franchise and American League record with 11 on May 24...
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