Harry Steinfeldt

Harry Steinfeldt
Third baseman
Born: September 29, 1877(1877-09-29) St. Louis, Missouri
Died: August 17, 1914(1914-08-17) (aged 36) Bellevue, Kentucky
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 22, 1898 for the Cincinnati Reds
Last MLB appearance
July 1, 1911 for the Boston Rustlers
Career statistics
Batting average	.267
Hits	1576
Runs batted in	762
Teams
Cincinnati Reds (1898-1905) Chicago Cubs (1906-1910) Boston Rustlers (1911)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion: 1907, 1908 National League pennant: 1906, 1910 National League RBI champion: 1906 2 seasons with a .300+ batting average

Harry M. Steinfeldt (September 29, 1877 – August 17, 1914) was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1898–1905), Chicago Cubs (1906–10) and Boston Rustlers (1911). Steinfeldt batted and threw right-handed. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

In a 14-season career, Steinfeldt was a .267 hitter with 27 home runs and 762 RBI in 1646 games played.

Steinfeldt died in Bellevue, Kentucky, at age of 36.

Highlights

Harry Steinfeldt's 1911 baseball card.

• Led National League in hits (1906/176)
• Led NL in RBIs (1906/83)
• Led NL in doubles (1903/32)
• Set a major league record with three sacrifice flies (1909)
• In 1906 finished second in the NL batting race with a .327 average, behind Honus Wagner (.339) and over Harry Lumley (.324)

Best season

• 1906: Hit a career-high .327 with 29 stolen bases and led the National League with 83 RBIs and 176 hits to lead the Cubs to their first World Series.

Postseason appearances

• 1906 World Series
• 1907 World Series
• 1908 World Series
• 1910 World Series

Fact

• Steinfeldt is the only member of the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield left out of Franklin Pierce Adams' famous poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon.

Quotation

• The only member of the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield left out of Franklin P. Adams's poem, Steinfeldt was a reliable third baseman with an unusually powerful arm. He originally hoped for a theatre|theatrical career but did so well in a baseball game put on by his touring troupe that he switched to the diamond. – Jack Kavanagh, sports historian and writer

See also

• List of Major League Baseball RBI champions
• List of Major League Baseball doubles champions
• List of Major League Baseball leaders in career stolen bases

External links

• Baseball Library
• The Baseball Biography Project
• Baseball Reference
• The Deadball Era
• Retrosheet

Preceded by Cy Seymour

National League RBI Champion 1906 (with Jim Nealon)

Succeeded by Sherry Magee