Editing Gavvy Cravath (section)

{{Short description|American baseball player and manager (1881–1963)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Gavvy Cravath
|image=Gavvy Cravath.jpeg
|position=[[Right fielder]] / [[Manager (baseball)|Manager]]
|birth_date={{Birth date|1881|3|23}}
|birth_place=[[Escondido, California]], U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1963|5|23|1881|3|23}}
|death_place=[[Laguna Beach, California]], U.S.
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=April 18
|debutyear=1908
|debutteam=Boston Red Sox
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=October 2
|finalyear=1920
|finalteam=Philadelphia Phillies
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.287
|stat2label=[[Home run]]s
|stat2value=119
|stat3label=[[Run batted in|Runs batted in]]
|stat3value=719
|stat4label=Managerial record
|stat4value=91–137
|stat5label=Winning %
|stat5value={{winning percentage|91|137}}
|teams=
'''As player'''
* [[Boston Red Sox]] ({{Baseball year|1908}})
* [[Chicago White Sox]] ({{Baseball year|1909}})
* [[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]] ({{Baseball year|1909}})
* [[Philadelphia Phillies]] ({{Baseball year|1912}}–{{Baseball year|1920}})
'''As manager'''
* [[Philadelphia Phillies]] ({{Baseball year|1919}}–{{Baseball year|1920}})
|highlights=
* 6× [[List of Major League Baseball annual home run leaders|NL home run leader]] (1913–1915, 1917–1919)
* 2× [[List of Major League Baseball annual runs batted in leaders|NL RBI leader]] (1913, 1915)
* [[Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame|Philadelphia Phillies Wall of Fame]]
}}
'''Clifford Carlton''' "'''Gavvy'''" '''Cravath''' (March 23, 1881 – May 23, 1963), also nicknamed "'''Cactus'''", was an American [[right fielder]] and right-handed batter in [[Major League Baseball]] who played primarily for the [[Philadelphia Phillies]]. One of the sport's most prolific power hitters of the [[dead-ball era]], in the eight years from 1913 to 1920 he led the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] in [[home run]]s six times, in [[run batted in|runs batted in]], [[total bases]] and [[slugging percentage]] twice each, and in [[hit (baseball)|hits]], [[run (baseball)|runs]] and [[base on balls|walks]] once each. Cravath is almost certainly the first player to hit 200 home runs in affiliated baseball -- 119 in the majors, 107 in the minors and seven in the 1903 "independent" Pacific Coast League. <ref>https://sabr.org/journal/article/gavy-cravaths-hall-worthy-200-home-runs/ "Gavy Cravath's Hall-Worthy 200 Home Runs" Fall 2024 Baseball Research Journal</ref> He led the NL in several offensive categories in {{Baseball year|1915}} as the Phillies won the first pennant in the team's 33-year history, and he held the team's career home run record from 1917 to 1924. He is one of eight players to lead the majors in home runs for a season six times in a career.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders-most-times-bat.shtml|title = Most Times Leading League Batting Statistics}}</ref> However, he played his home games at [[Baker Bowl]], a park that was notoriously favorable to batting statistics. Cravath hit 92 career homers at Baker Bowl while he had 25 homers in all his games away from home. Moreover, he was an exceptionally slow base runner; so much so, in fact, that it was actually Cravath about whom sportswriter [[Bugs Baer]] famously wrote, "His head was sure full of larceny, but his feet were honest,"<ref>Baer, Bugs (June 24, 1919). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=55362203 "Two and Three, Putting the Next One Over"]. ''Pittsburgh Daily Post''. Retrieved July 16, 2020.</ref> a distinction which, along with Cravath's extreme lack of foot speed, has long been mistakenly ascribed to [[Ping Bodie]].<ref>Ruth, Babe (May 10, 1924). [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55439753 "Many Comical Situations Arise During Game"]. ''The Harrisburg Evening News''. Retrieved July 16, 2020.</ref>