Best Players Born in DC
Posted by Raphy on November 4, 2008
In honor of election day -
Here are the top five players in career runs created who were born in Washington DC.
1 Lu Blue 947 1921 1933 24-36 1615 7207 5904 1151 1696 319 109 44 695 1092 0 436 43 168 0 0 151 85 .287 .402 .401 .803 *3/8 DET-SLB-CHW-BRO Washington, DC 2 Maury Wills 887 1959 1972 26-39 1942 8304 7588 1067 2134 177 71 20 458 552 26 684 16 119 29 92 586 208 .281 .330 .331 .661 *65 LAD-PIT-TOT-LAD Washington, DC 3 Don Money 845 1968 1983 21-36 1720 6998 6215 798 1623 302 36 176 729 600 45 866 40 90 53 121 80 51 .261 .328 .406 .734 *54D63/7 PHI-MIL Washington, DC 4 Art Devlin 529 1904 1913 24-33 1313 5241 4412 603 1185 164 57 10 505 576 0 105 84 169 0 0 285 0 .269 .364 .338 .702 *5/3647 NYG-BSN Washington, DC 5 Milt Thompson 493 1984 1996 25-37 1359 4155 3761 491 1029 156 37 47 357 336 46 635 22 20 16 60 214 66 .274 .335 .372 .707 879 ATL-STL-PHI-HOU-TOT Washington, DC
The active leader is Emmanuel Burriss who is 31st with 29.
Here are the top five pitchers in career wins who were born in Washington DC.
1 Doc White 189 1901 1913 22-34 427 363 262 45 53 156 .548 5 3041 2743 1115 808 670 1384 2.39 113 33 9414 119 7 62 PHI-CHW Washington, DC 2 Johnny Klippstein 101 1950 1967 22-39 711 161 37 6 275 118 .461 66 1967.2 1915 1059 927 978 1158 4.24 94 203 8656 70 70 6 97 CHC-CIN-TOT-LAD-CLE-WSA-CIN-PHI-MIN-DET Washington, DC 3 Clay Kirby 75 1969 1976 21-28 261 239 42 8 8 104 .419 0 1548 1430 755 660 713 1061 3.84 92 156 6682 57 30 2 83 SDP-CIN-MON Washington, DC 4 Billy Taylor 50 1881 1887 26-32 100 84 83 3 15 36 .581 4 799.2 811 456 282 165 376 3.17 102 11 2330 15 0 8 TOT-PIT-PHA-BAL Washington, DC 5 Bob Barr 49 1883 1891 26-34 158 151 141 6 7 98 .333 1 1327.1 1455 935 565 363 588 3.83 86 31 5764 34 0 52 PIT-TOT-WHS-ROC-NYG Washington, DC
The active leader is Brendan Donnelly who is eighth with 26.