Cap Anson was a major league baseball player and Hall of Famer.
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| - Cap Anson was a major league baseball player and Hall of Famer.
- Anson spent most of his career with the Chicago Cubs franchise (then known as the "White Stockings" and later the "Colts"), serving as the club's manager, first baseman and, later in his tenure, minority owner. He led the team to five National League pennants in the 1880s. Anson was one of baseball's first great hitters, and was the first to tally over 3,000 career hits (3012 is most accepted "official" figure). He is generally considered (with the possible exception of Albert Goodwill Spalding) as the most recognizable name of the 19th century. Anson shared the record with Mel Ott (Giants), Stan Musial (Cardinals), and Al Kaline (Tigers) for most major league years entirely with one team (counting National Association as non-major league). Brooks Robinson (Orioles) and Carl Yastrzemski (R
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| - Cap Anson was a major league baseball player and Hall of Famer.
- Anson spent most of his career with the Chicago Cubs franchise (then known as the "White Stockings" and later the "Colts"), serving as the club's manager, first baseman and, later in his tenure, minority owner. He led the team to five National League pennants in the 1880s. Anson was one of baseball's first great hitters, and was the first to tally over 3,000 career hits (3012 is most accepted "official" figure). He is generally considered (with the possible exception of Albert Goodwill Spalding) as the most recognizable name of the 19th century. Anson shared the record with Mel Ott (Giants), Stan Musial (Cardinals), and Al Kaline (Tigers) for most major league years entirely with one team (counting National Association as non-major league). Brooks Robinson (Orioles) and Carl Yastrzemski (Red Sox) played entire major league careers of 23 years - to break the record - for one American League team. His contemporary influence and prestige are regarded by historians as playing a major role in establishing the racial segregation in professional baseball that persisted until the late 1940s. On several occasions, Anson refused to take the field when the opposing roster included black players. After retiring as a player and leaving the Colts, Anson briefly managed the New York Giants for part of 1898. He ran several enterprises in Chicago, including opening a billiards and bowling hall and running a semi-professional baseball team he dubbed "Anson's Colts". Anson also toured extensively on the vaudeville circuit, performing monologues and songs. Many of his business ventures failed, resulting in Anson losing his ownership stake in the Colts (by then called the Cubs) and filing for bankruptcy. Anson was selected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939 and was posthumously inducted as one of the first 25 in June, 1939.
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