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Diamond_Dog

(34,615 posts) Sun Jul 17, 2022, 09:30 AM Jul 2022

Who 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.

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Who holds the MLB record for hitting the most consecutive doubles in one game? (Original Post) Diamond_Dog Jul 2022 OP

Wow! I would have thought that record broken by now. Auggie Jul 2022 #1

Ik, r? Diamond_Dog Jul 2022 #3

loved to listen to him on the Cub radio broadcasts so many years ago rurallib Jul 2022 #2

I never realized he went into broadcasting until I saw it on Wikipedia Diamond_Dog Jul 2022 #4

I was going to post this... bahboo Jul 2022 #5

Yes for most of his career in the booth rurallib Jul 2022 #6

yep...I remember that "college of managers" well.... bahboo Jul 2022 #7

Jack Quinlan - right! rurallib Jul 2022 #8

The Earl Of Doublin' joemacdawson Jul 2022 #9

Auggie

(31,798 posts)

1. Wow! I would have thought that record broken by now.

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Original post)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 09:56 AM

Jul 2022

Diamond_Dog

(34,615 posts)

3. Ik, r?

Reply to Auggie (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 11:28 AM

Jul 2022

Got that from Wikipedia so I hope it’s accurate.

rurallib

(63,196 posts)

2. loved to listen to him on the Cub radio broadcasts so many years ago

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Original post)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 10:28 AM

Jul 2022

Very low key and extremely knowledgeable

Diamond_Dog

(34,615 posts)

4. I never realized he went into broadcasting until I saw it on Wikipedia

Reply to rurallib (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 11:29 AM

Jul 2022

bahboo

(16,953 posts)

5. I was going to post this...

Reply to rurallib (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 11:52 AM

Jul 2022

he was superb. Can't totally remember, but was Vince Lloyd the play by play guy?

rurallib

(63,196 posts)

6. Yes for most of his career in the booth

Reply to bahboo (Reply #5)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 02:33 PM

Jul 2022

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

(16,953 posts)

7. yep...I remember that "college of managers" well....

Reply to rurallib (Reply #6)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 02:57 PM

Jul 2022

still lost haha. I think Jack Quinlan was the announcer killed in a car crash...

rurallib

(63,196 posts)

8. Jack Quinlan - right!

Reply to bahboo (Reply #7)

Sun Jul 17, 2022, 03:00 PM

Jul 2022

joemacdawson

(69 posts)

9. The Earl Of Doublin'

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Original post)

Wed Jul 20, 2022, 06:25 PM

Jul 2022

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.

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