Pie Traynor

Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor (November 11, 1898 – March 16, 1972) was an American third baseman, manager, scout, and radio broadcaster in Major League Baseball who played his entire career, from 1920 to 1937, for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He compiled a .320 career batting average, hitting over .300 ten times and driving in more than 100 runs in seven seasons. Playing in Forbes Field, the most difficult park for power hitting in the National League, he saw his home runs limited and compensated by reaching double digits in triples eleven times, leading the league in 1923. He batted .346 in the 1925 World Series, helping the Pirates capture their first championship in sixteen years.

Defensively, Traynor led NL third basemen in putouts seven times, in double plays four times, and in assists three times. His 41 double plays in 1925 stood as an NL record until 1950, and his 226 putouts that season remain the highest NL total since 1905. He set major league records for career double plays (303) and games (1,863) at third base, marks broken in 1945 and 1960 and held as NL records until Eddie Mathews surpassed them in 1964 and 1965. His 2,289 putouts remain the NL record.