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Related: About this forumWho holds the MLB record for hitting the most consecutive doubles in one game?
Lou Boudreau, born this day in 1917.
Boudreau still holds the MLB record for hitting the most consecutive doubles in a game (four), set on July 14, 1946.
Auggie
(31,764 posts)Got that from Wikipedia so I hope its accurate.
rurallib
(63,119 posts)Very low key and extremely knowledgeable
Diamond_Dog
(34,413 posts)bahboo
(16,926 posts)he was superb. Can't totally remember, but was Vince Lloyd the play by play guy?
rurallib
(63,119 posts)He started with another play-by-play announcer who was killed in a car wreck. Vince Lloyd then took that guy's place.
Boudreau could be accidental comic gold on commercials. Commercials were often live and Lou would fight words he couldn't pronounce to the death. There was one classic where he fought 'rhododendron' to a near deadly draw.
But he sure knew his baseball.
Who can forget when he left the booth to be one of the Cubs 'college of managers'?
bahboo
(16,926 posts)still lost haha. I think Jack Quinlan was the announcer killed in a car crash...
rurallib
(63,119 posts)joemacdawson
(66 posts)There was a guy named Earl Webb, who played from 25-33. He hit 67 doubles one year. Still the record, I think.
And Boudreau, as a player-manager was credited with the first infield shift. The Boudreau Shift. Radical at the time. Before sabermetrics and the like.