Happy Birthday Cap Anson and Jake Daubert...
 

Sure HOF-er Cap Anson was born on April 17th.

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But so was Jake Daubert, who some believe should join him in Cooperstown.

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JAKE DAUBERT: A MINER IN THE MAJORS
by Larry Brunt
https://baseballhall.org/discover-mo...iner-in-majors

"Jacob Ellsworth Daubert was born on April 17, 1884 in Shamokin, Pa., and from an early age he knew what he would be: A coal miner, like his dad and his two older brothers. "It’s in my family," he once said.

He began work at age 12 as a breaker boy, sitting on a wooden plank over a chute of tumbling coal, reaching down to separate slate from coal with his bare hands. Later he shored up “caving roofs with timber” and drove mules hauling cars of coal until he became a regular miner. Starting at 16 and for the next six years, Daubert swung a sledgehammer in dark, jagged tunnels, a thousand feet underground—10 hours a day, 250 days a year.

On the other days—weekends and holidays—he played baseball. By 1906, he played in a semi-pro league made up almost entirely of miners, but he caught the eye of the nearby Kane Mountaineers, a Class D team in the Interstate League. When he was offered a contract, Daubert was hesitant to give up the full-time pay of mining, and he doubted he had the ability to last long in professional baseball, but his wife of three years convinced him he should try."

Jake Daubert
SABR article was written by Jim Sandoval
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/jake-daubert/

"Daubert was one of the most liked and respected players of his era."

Happy Bday JD

Never knew JD was so good not only offensively , but defensively as well.

Wiki says he never fielded below the .989 mark. Pretty darn good.

I would think if not for his untimely demise, definitely a HOF'er.