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Jake Beckley

Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach (died 1918)

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Born
August 4, 1867
Died
June 25, 1918
Zodiac sign
Leo
Birth year
1867

About Jake Beckley

Jacob Peter Beckley, nicknamed "Eagle Eye", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Pittsburgh Burghers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals from 1888 to 1907. Jacob Peter Beckley (August 4, 1867 – June 25, 1918), nicknamed "Eagle Eye", was an American professional baseball first baseman. In his first season with the Reds, Beckley was unsuccessful in getting rookie Honus Wagner out with the hidden ball trick, a tactic he had been known to use against the opposition. Beckley holds the MLB record for career putouts, with 23,743, and ranks second all-time in games played at first base, with 2,376.

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The world when Jake Beckley was born

Jake Beckley was born in 1867. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineUS purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
  • Technology milestoneDynamite patented by Alfred Nobel
  • Notable inventionDynamite
  • World population~1.47B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderAndrew Johnson
  • U.S. population34.5M

1867 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Jake Beckley's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18672026
Population34.5M341 million

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