Wally Schang: Baseball's Overlooked Champion

You’ve probably never heard of him. But Wally Schang might be baseball’s most forgotten winner. <break time="0.8s" />

A switch-hitting catcher with brains and grit, Schang played eighteen seasons — and won

four World Series titles. He won with the 1913 Philadelphia Athletics,

the 1918 Boston Red Sox, and the 1923 New York Yankees. The only man to

ever win rings with three different franchises. Schang could hit, too.

A career .284 average and a .393 on-base percentage — one of the best ever for a catcher.

He caught Babe Ruth in Boston, then again in New York — the link between

the Dead-Ball past and the power-hitting future. While others chased glory,