In a 13-season career, Wambsganss posted a .259 batting average with seven home runs and 519 RBI in 1492 games played. A fine fielder, he amassed 4,269 assists with 3,420 putouts and turned 605 double plays. He committed only 375 errors in 8,064 chances for a significant .954 fielding percentage.
In the fifth inning of Game Five of the 1920 World Series played at League Park, Wambsganss caught a line drive batted by Clarence Mitchell, stepped on second base to retire Pete Kilduff, and tagged Otto Miller coming from first base, to complete the first triple play, completely unassisted, in World Series history.
When interviewed in the 1960s by Lawrence Ritter, for his classic oral history, The Glory of Their Times, Wambsganss recalled: "Funny thing, I played in the big leagues for 13 years, 1914 through 1926, and the only thing that anybody seems to remember is that once I made an unassisted triple play in a World Series. Many don't even remember the team I was on, or the position I played, or anything. Just Wambsganss-unassisted triple play! You'd think I was born on the day before and died on the day after."
So much for Major League Baseball's only World Series Triple Play. How about enjoying a Department Store Retailing Triple Play? Did you know that there is not just one "Department Store Retailing/Macy's Alumni Group" website (ie, the one you are reading now) ..... there are FOUR of them! All mirror images (at least in terms of content) of each other just in case:
A. Macy's decides they don't want the name "Macy's" used in someone else's internet domain name or
B. To help keep Google indexing my websites at the top of the heap (yes, using the same sort of dastardly so-called Blackhat SEO technique that JC Penney got caught at)for the noble cause of helping earth's citizens to discover the wonderful world of the "Department Store Retailing/Macy's Alumni Group" blogs even faster.
Whether you stay here or visit the triplets, you will get the same great Department Store Retailing/Macy's Alumni Group play-by-play action. It would make Bill Wambsganss proud!
Beat out a close play at First Base...
Round Second Base....
Wave you in going around Third Base...
And slide into Home Plate safely!
Enjoy rounding the bases!
