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
*"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.
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