Hack Wilson ☆HOF☆

LEWIS ROBERT WILSON

In 1930, Hack Wilson won the NL MVP, batted .356, blasted 56 home runs (the NL record for 68 years) & tallied 191 RBIs (the current MLB all-time record to date!).

"For a brief span of a few years", wrote a sportswriter of the day, "this hammered down little strongman actually rivaled the mighty [Babe] Ruth."

On Sunday, September 1, 1929, vs. the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer & MLB's all-time single-season RBI leader, Lewis Robert "Hack" Wilson blasted career home run #132.

Hack Wilson Career HR #132

• HACK WILSON CAREER HR #132
• Sunday, September 1, 1929
• St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
• Wrigley Field - Chicago, IL

This was Hack Wilson's 34th home run & 129th RBI of 1929, a season in which he hit 39 HRs & won the RBI Title w/ 159 RBIs.

Hack Wilson Notches 34th HR & 129th RBI of 1929 Season!

In 1929, good times were rolling for Cubs fans in the "roaring 20's" as Chicago overthrew defending NL champ St. Louis, and Cubs player-manager Rogers Hornsby (.380/39/149) won his 2nd NL MVP in leading Chicago to the 1929 NL pennant.

Five Hall of Famers played in this game... Rogers Hornsby (2-time NL Triple Crown winner in 1922 & '25, 2-time NL MVP in 1925 & '29, 7-time NL batting champion & 1926 World Series champ); Hack Wilson (4-time NL HR King, 2-time MLB RBI Leader & MLB's All-Time Single-Season RBI Leader); the "Fordham Flash" Frankie Frisch (1931 NL MVP & 4-time World Series champ); Jim Bottomley (1928 NL MVP & 2-time World Series champ); & Hazen "Kiki " Cuyler (1925 World Series champ & .321 lifetime hitter).

While Hack Wilson's combativeness & excessive alcohol use made him one of the most colorful sports personalities of his era, his drinking & fighting undoubtedly contributed to a premature end to his athletic career and, ultimately, to his untimely death in 1948.

Hack Wilson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.