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- Birth nameHenry Bartholomew Hooper
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Harry Hooper was born on August 24, 1887 in Bell Station, California, USA. He died on December 18, 1974 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
- First to hit two home runs in a single World Series game in 1915.
- He had an engineering degree.
- Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Committee on Baseball Veterans in 1971.
- Red Sox record holder for most triples in a season (13) and stolen bases for a career (300).
- Rightfielder for Boston Red Sox (1909-1920) and Chicago White Sox (1921-1925).
- The Yankee dynasty of the twenties was three-quarters the Red Sox of a few years before. All Frazee wanted was the money. He was short of cash and he sold the whole team down the river to keep his dirty nose above water.
- On Babe Ruth: "Sometimes I still can't believe what I saw. This 19-year-old kid, crude, poorly educated, only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of baseball the world over - a man loved by more people and with an intensity of feeling that perhaps has never been equaled before or since."
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