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Joe Medwick

Joe Medwick, American baseball player and manager (died 1975)

Born
November 24, 1911
Died
March 21, 1975
Zodiac sign
Sagittarius
Birth year
1911

About Joe Medwick

Joseph Michael Medwick (November 24, 1911 – March 21, 1975), nicknamed "Ducky" and "Muscles", was an American Major League Baseball player. A left fielder with the St. Louis Cardinals during the "Gashouse Gang" era of the 1930s, he also played with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1940–1943, 1946), New York Giants (1943–1945), and Boston Braves (1945). Medwick is the last National League player to win the Triple Crown award (1937). Joseph Michael Medwick (November 24, 1911 – March 21, 1975), nicknamed "Ducky", "Muscles", and "Mickey", was an American professional baseball left fielder. A ten-time All-Star, Medwick was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1968 with 84.81% of the votes. Famed football coach Knute Rockne made arrangements for Medwick to play football at University of Notre Dame, but he chose professional baseball instead.

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Joe Medwick timeline

  1. Joseph Michael Medwick (November 24, 1911 – March 21, 1975), nicknamed "Ducky", "Muscles", and "Mickey", was an American professional baseball left fielder.
  2. Medwick is the last National League player to win the Triple Crown award (1937).
  3. A ten-time All-Star, Medwick was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1968 with 84.81% of the votes.

The world when Joe Medwick was born

Joe Medwick was born in 1911. 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 1911

  • Best-selling book"The Broad Highway" – Jeffery Farnol

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentFirst Indianapolis 500 race
  • Top headlineTriangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 workers
  • Technology milestoneFirst transcontinental airplane flight (49 days)
  • World population~1.71B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam Howard Taft
  • U.S. population93.4M

1911 versus 2026

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

Measure19112026
Population93.4M341 million

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