Peckinpaugh, Roger T.
Baseball
b. Feb. 5, 1891, Wooster, OH
d. Nov. 17, 1977
A 5-foot-10½, 165-pound shortstop, Peckinpaugh was a part-time player with the Cleveland Indians in 1910 and 1912. Shortly after the New York Yankees' starting shortstop made three errors in a game early in the 1913 season, the Yankees traded two players for Peckinpaugh and he took over as their starter. In 1914, he became the youngest manager in major league history at the age of twenty-three, taking over the Yankees for the last 14 games of the season.
When the Yankees won their first pennant in 1921, Peckinpaugh batted .288 and scored 128 runs. He was traded to the Washington Senators in 1922 and played on two pennant-winning teams there, in 1924 and 1925.
He starred in Washington's seven-game World Series victory over the New York Giants in 1924, batting .417, and he was named the league's most valuable player in 1925, when he batted .294. Peckinpaugh retired after spending the 1927 season with the Chicago White Sox. He had a career average of .259, with 1,876 hits, including 256 doubles, 75 triples, and 48 home runs.
Peckinpaugh became the Cleveland manager in 1928 and was replaced during the 1933 season. He returned to manage the team again in 1941. His over-all record as a manager was 500 wins and 491 losses.