Charles Benjamin Adams (1882 - 1968)

Born 18 May 1882 in Tipton Township, Cass, Indiana, United States

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Died 27 Jul 1968 at age 86 in Silver Spring, Montgomery, Maryland, United States

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Biography

Charles Adams is Notable.

Major League Baseball Player. He played Major League Baseball as a pitcher for nineteen seasons (1906 to 1907, 1909 to 1916, and 1918 to 1926) with the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. He pitched three complete-game victories (including a shutout in game 7) in the 1909 World Series over the Detroit Tigers as a rookie. In that series, American League batting champ, Ty Cobb, went one-for-eleven against Adams (.090). He is still credited as the only rookie to win three games in a single World Series, and is one of only two rookies to start and win a World Series Game 7 (a feat matched by John Lackey of the Anaheim Angels in 2002). He retired after a 17-year career. In his sixties during World War II, Adams covered the war in the Pacific as a foreign correspondent and later covered the Korean War while in his seventies.

• Fact: Nickname Babe Adams
• Fact: Residence (1900) ED 109 Trail Creek Township Mt. Moriah vill., Harrison, Missouri, United States
• Fact: Occupation (from 1906 to 1926) Major League Baseball Pitcher St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates
• Fact: Military Draft Registration (1917-1918) Harrison County, Missouri, United States
• Fact: Residence (1920) Trail Creek, Harrison, Missouri, United States
• Fact: Burial Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States
• Fact: Physical Description 5-11, 185lb black hair brown eyes
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch For biography see: https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/617bd0ad

Sources

• *"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3RD-D4N : 22 February 2021), Charles Benjamin Adams, 1917-1918.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVQ-1F6P : 26 July 2019), Babe Adams, 1968; Burial, Mount Moriah, Harrison, Missouri, United States of America, Mount Moriah Cemetery; citing record ID 7680679, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 14 January 2021, 19:13), entry for Charles Benjamin Adams (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KGST-HC9 ); contributed by various users.
• https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/babe-adams/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Adams
• Wikidata: Item Q4837640, en:Wikipedia