1894 by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview
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batted .415, .398, and .399. Imagine what might have happened if he was twenty-five during this enchanted campaign.
Adrian Constantine Anson, April 17, 1852 - April 14, 1922, nicknamed "Cap" for "Captain" and "Pop," was a major league baseball first baseman. He played a record 27 consecutive seasons. Anson was regarded as one of the greatest players of his era and one of the first superstars of the game. He spent most of his career with the Chicago Cubs franchise, then known as the "White Stockings" and later as the "Colts," serving as the club's manager, first baseman and, later in his tenure, minority owner. He led the team to six National League pennants in the 1880s. Anson was one of baseball's first great hitters, and the first to tally over 3,000 career hits.
Anson was born in Marshalltown, Iowa. Beginning in 1866, he spent two years at the high school age boarding school of the University of Notre Dame after being sent there by his father in hopes of curtailing his mischievousness. His time away did little to discipline him. Soon after he returned home, his father sent him to the University of Iowa, where his bad behavior resulted in the school asking him to leave after one semester.