Art Shires

Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer (died 1967)

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Born: August 13, 1906
Died: July 13, 1967
Zodiac sign: Leo
Birth year: 1906

About Art Shires

Charles Arthur Shires was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman for the Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators and Boston Braves. In a four-year major league career, Shires played in 290 games, accumulating 287 hits in 986 at bats for a.291 career batting average along with 11 home runs, 119 runs batted in, an on-base percentage of.347, and a.988 fielding percentage. In his short career though, he kicked an 80 yard punt which set a school record until it was eventually beaten in 2017 by Kaare Vedvik.

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The world when Art Shires was born

Art Shires was born in 1906. 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.

Culture in 1906

Best-selling bookThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Headlines and milestones

Major sports moment"Hitless Wonders" Chicago White Sox upset Cubs in World Series
Top headlineSan Francisco earthquake and fire — 3,000+ killed
Technology milestoneFirst radio broadcast of voice and music
World population~1.66B

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderTheodore Roosevelt
U.S. population84.6M

1906 versus 2026

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

Measure	1906	2026
Population	84.6M	341 million

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