Ben Paschal
Benjamin Edwin Paschal was an American baseball outfielder. He played eight seasons in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1929. He is best known for hitting. 360 in the 1925 season while standing in for Babe Ruth, who missed the first 40 games with a stomach ailment. He also played for the Cleveland Indians in 1915 and the Boston Red Sox in 1920.
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Benjamin Edwin Paschal was an American baseball outfielder. He played eight seasons in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1929, mostly for the New York Yankees. Paschal is best known for hitting. 360 in the 1925 season while standing in for Babe Ruth, who missed the first 40 games with a stomach ailment. He was one of the best pinch hitters in the game during the period, at a time when the term was still relatively new to baseball. The son of farmers, he was born in Enterprise, Alabama, and grew up in nearby Sanford. He died in Asheville, North Carolina, on December 31, 1989. He is buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery in New York City, where he was a member of the Dothan State League in the Georgia State League from 1913 to 1915. He also played for the Cleveland Indians in 1915 and the Boston Red Sox in 1920. He spent most of his career as the fourth outfielder and right-handed pinch hitter of the Yankees’ Murderers’ Row championship teams of the late 1920s. His playing time with the Yankees was limited because they already had future Baseball Hall of Famers Ruth and Earle Combs, and star Bob Meusel, in the outfield. During spring training, Paschal narrowly escaped serious injury while traveling on a bus.
The vehicle rolled backwards down a hill and Paschal, along with several other teammates, jumped off before it hit a tree at high speed. The media expected Ruth to be Paschal’s understudy for the regular season, but Ruth collapsed at an Asheville train station just before the start of the season and was hospitalized for six weeks. Originally, Pasch was only to be used against left-handed pitchers, but he was named as Ruth’s temporary replacement in 1925. After Ruth’s recovery, the Yankees acquired veteran outfielder Bobby Veach to fill the void in their outfield, but Veach’s weakness against right- handed pitchers prompted the Yankees to acquire another outfielder, Bobby Veacchia, for the 1925 World Series win against the defending World Series champions, the Washington Senators. The Yankees won the World Series 5–1 in the first game of the year. Pasch’s last game was in 1926, when he hit a home run in a 5-1 win against Washington Senators pitcher José Acosta. He retired after the 1926 season, and was buried in North Carolina with a broken leg, which he had sustained in a car accident. He never played again in professional baseball.
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