Joshua Cohen Inducted Into The Hall of Fame
Joshua Cohen ended a fantastic career spent primarily in the state of Pennsylvania, announcing his retirement and shortly thereafter getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. "Look, we just do it immediately," said commissioner Johnny Slick. "No, there's no voting. It just happens. Stop asking questions we're not going to answer."
Cohen started his career at age 22 with the Philadelphia Athletics and stayed there through the 1925 season. It was there that he put in the best work of his career, winning his lone Gold Glove in 1917 and his MVP in 1920. Perhaps a .336 average with 5 home runs and 88 RBIs doesn't look like much today, but trust us: back then it was something else.
After taking leave of the A's, he flitted around the game, landing with the Giants, White Sox, and Pirates, and steadily getting less and less playing time. He still managed to put together 12 consecutive years with at least 170 hits. In 1929 he had a career high 120 runs scored.
Cohen finishes his career 2nd all-time in hits with 3,193, 4th in runs with 1,475, 5th in games played with 2,522, and 12th all-time in walks with 1,018. He led the league in games played 3 times, plate appearances, runs, and hits once, and on-base percentage twice. He hit .394 in '25, which amazingly did not earn him his 2nd MVP. Baseball will miss a great player.
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Career Batting Stats
Year/Team/League Age G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB AVG OBP SLG
1913 Philadelphia - ML 22 95 409 54 137 7 6 1 38 20 24 34 0.335 0.369 0.389
1914 Philadelphia - ML 23 77 331 49 104 14 2 0 38 19 14 34 0.314 0.352 0.369
1915 Philadelphia - ML 24 117 486 71 156 15 11 1 39 41 30 36 0.321 0.375 0.403
1916 Philadelphia - ML 25 132 548 63 156 14 6 5 54 37 31 37 0.285 0.330 0.359
1917 Philadelphia - ML 26 152 609 80 172 16 7 3 60 80 44 41 0.282 0.367 0.346
1918 Philadelphia - ML 27 152 611 78 190 18 11 1 67 58 22 40 0.311 0.370 0.381
1919 Philadelphia - ML 28 132 537 80 175 11 10 4 52 58 26 21 0.326 0.396 0.406
1920 Philadelphia - ML 29 148 622 99 209 24 5 5 88 53 31 32 0.336 0.386 0.415
1921 Philadelphia - ML 30 129 527 82 190 8 9 4 65 56 21 18 0.361 0.418 0.433
1922 Philadelphia - ML 31 149 615 91 205 17 7 7 86 64 36 9 0.333 0.397 0.418
1923 Philadelphia - ML 32 152 617 92 208 21 5 2 61 69 29 34 0.337 0.405 0.397
1924 Philadelphia - ML 33 149 613 94 224 25 13 9 106 54 24 11 0.365 0.413 0.493
1925 Philadelphia - ML 34 130 548 97 216 22 9 6 84 66 18 8 0.394 0.460 0.500
1926 New York - MLB 35 149 584 94 197 21 10 7 84 79 26 7 0.337 0.414 0.443
1927 New York - MLB 36 153 617 106 203 24 5 3 62 68 24 38 0.329 0.395 0.399
1928 Chicago - MLB 37 152 630 120 196 21 4 11 53 91 35 9 0.311 0.400 0.410
1929 Chicago - MLB 38 112 286 44 97 12 3 3 37 27 14 3 0.339 0.392 0.434
1930 Cincinnati - MLB 39 43 86 14 26 0 1 0 10 11 15 1 0.302 0.378 0.326
1930 Chicago - MLB 39 62 141 24 41 7 2 0 14 24 14 3 0.291 0.389 0.369
1930 Total - MLB 39 105 227 38 67 7 3 0 24 35 29 4 0.295 0.385 0.352
1931 New York - MLB 40 57 103 11 33 3 0 0 13 17 11 2 0.320 0.417 0.350
1932 Pittsburgh - MLB 41 80 222 32 58 9 3 2 17 26 29 3 0.261 0.339 0.356
Total MLB 2522 9742 1475 3193 309 129 74 11281018 518 421 0.328 0.391 0.409