Huck Geary
Shortstop, Baseball Player
1917 – 1981
Who was Huck Geary?
Eugene Francis Joseph "Huck" Geary is a former Major League Baseball player. A right-handed shortstop who batted from the left side, Geary had a listed weight of 170 pounds.
Geary appeared in 55 games with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1942 and 1943, compiling a relatively low .160 batting average and .437 OPS during that time. He did display a good batting eye, drawing 20 walks and striking out only nine times in 188 at bats. Geary caused some consternation for manager Frankie Frisch in 1943 by repeatedly returning home to New York to visit his wife and children without first receiving permission from the club. To cover for Geary in the press, Frisch attributed his absence to a period of convalescence from "stomach and nervous trouble".
In his autobiography Veeck - As In Wreck, Bill Veeck relates a story about Geary and second baseman Eddie Stanky. Stanky was leading off for the Chicago Cubs in his first major league game on April 21, 1943, and the first pitch he saw as a batter hit him right in the head. After recovering his bearings, Stanky proceeded to first base, and when the second batter hit a slow ground ball, Stanky made a hard slide at second in an attempt to show that he was unfazed by the beaning. Geary was the shortstop on the play, and when Stanky cut his legs out from under him, he was injured. According to Veeck, there was some doubt that Geary would ever play again, and he did leave the majors for good at the end of that year. The play had the effect of establishing Stanky's reputation in the league as a tough player.
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- Born
- Jan 22, 1917
Buffalo - Profession
- Died
- Jan 27, 1981
Cuba
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on July 23, 2013
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