Lewis Everett Scott nicknamed "Deacon", was an American

United States

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 shortstop

Shortstop

Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...

 in Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 who played for 12 seasons with the Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

 (1914–1921), New York Yankees

New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

 (1922–1925), Washington Senators

Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...

 (1925), Chicago White Sox

Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...

 (1926) and Cincinnati Reds

Cincinnati Reds

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 (1926). Scott batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Bluffton, Indiana

Bluffton, Indiana

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.

Scott compiled a lifetime batting average

Batting average

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 of .249, hitting 20 home run

Home run

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s with 551 RBI

Run batted in

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 in 1654 games. He led American League

American League

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 shortstops in fielding percentage

Fielding percentage

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 seven straight seasons (1916–22) and appeared in 1,307 consecutive games

MLB consecutive games played streaks

Listed below are the 15 longest consecutive games played streaks in Major League Baseball history. To compile such a streak, a player must appear in every game played by his team...

 from June 20, 1916 through May 6, 1925, setting a record later broken by Lou Gehrig

Lou Gehrig

Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig , nicknamed "The Iron Horse" for his durability, was an American Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his entire 17-year baseball career for the New York Yankees . Gehrig set several major league records. He holds the record for most career grand slams...

. It is still the third-longest such streak in history.

Scott was a member of three Boston Red Sox World Series

World Series

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 championship teams in 1915

1915 World Series

In the 1915 World Series, the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies four games to one.In their only World Series before , the Phillies won Game 1 before being swept the rest of the way. It was 65 years before the Phillies won their next Series game...

-16

1916 World Series

In the 1916 World Series, the Boston Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Robins four games to one.Casey Stengel shone on offense for the Robins in the 1916 Series but the Red Sox pitching core ultimately proved too much for the denizens of Flatbush...

 and 1918

1918 World Series

The 1918 World Series featured the Boston Red Sox, who defeated the Chicago Cubs four games to two. The Series victory for the Red Sox was their fifth in five tries, going back to . The Red Sox scored only nine runs in the entire Series; the fewest runs by the winning team in World Series history...

), and also played with the New York Yankees in the 1922

1922 World Series

In the 1922 World Series, the New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in five games...

 and 1923

1923 World Series

In the 1923 World Series, the New York Yankees beat the New York Giants in six games. This would be the first of the Yankees' 27 World Series championships...

 Series, winning in 1923.

Scott died in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...

 at age 67.

External links

• BaseballLibrary.com
• The Virtual Card Collection
• Scott Padded Shoes To Escape Being Cut; Played 1307 Straight Games At Short, by Harry Grayson
  Harry Grayson
  Harry Markey Grayson was an American sportswriter. He was the sports editor of the Newspaper Enterprise Association from 1934 to 1963.-Baseball:* , February 5, 1936*, March 18, 1938...
  
  , June 21, 1943