Heinie Manush

Henry Emmett Manush (July 20, 1901 – May 12, 1971), nicknamed "Heinie," was an American baseball outfielder who played professional baseball for 20 years from 1920 to 1939, including 17 years in Major League Baseball. A native of Tuscumbia, Alabama, he debuted with the Detroit Tigers (1923–1927) and went on to play for the St. Louis Browns (1928–1930), Washington Senators (1930–1935), Boston Red Sox (1936), Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–1938), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1938–1939).

Manush was one of the best batters in baseball in the 1920s and 1930s. He compiled a .330 career batting average and won the American League batting championship in 1926 with a .378 mark. In 1928 he finished one point short of a second batting title. He placed among the top four batters in the American League six times (1926, 1928–1929, and 1932–1934) and recorded more than 200 hits in four seasons (1928–1929 and 1932–1933).

After retiring as a player, Manush managed in the minor leagues from 1940 to 1945, scouted for the Boston Braves in the late 1940s, and coached for the Senators from 1953 to 1954. He later scouted for the expansion Senators in the early 1960s. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964.