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Calvin Alexander McVey (August 30, 1849 – August 20, 1926) was a professional baseball player during the 1860s and 1870s. McVey's importance to the game stems from his play on two of the earliest professional baseball teams, the original Cincinnati Red Stockings and the National Association Boston Red Stockings. He also played on the inaugural National League pennant-winning team, the 1876 Chicago White Stockings. He has the NA record for most career RBIs (276) Cal McVey was born in rural Montrose, Iowa and moved to Indianapolis at eleven, where he learned baseball and soon excelled at the game, playing for the Western and Active clubs in the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP). With McVey usually pitching, the Actives in 1868 defeated local rivals, lost to the three strong Eastern teams that toured the West, and won one game in six against Cincinnati teams (Wright 2000: 211). Despite a lopsided 7–54 defeat by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, that club later hired him to play in 1869 for $700 and he served as the regular right fielder for both of its storied seasons.〔On a trip to Cincinnati, September 14 to 17, the Actives played four games in four days (Wright 2000: 211). The local baseball fraternity must have followed the Actives as well as the relative performances of the four local teams, all winners. Perhaps Red Stockings manager Harry Wright watched all the games himself.〕 == Cincinnati == The ''Cincinnati Daily Times'' described Cal McVey in this way: "He is powerfully built, with broad shoulders and barrel chest...handsome though shy, and is a favorite of the ladies. He is very conscientious and a hard worker...a good fielder, but his strength is with the ash in his hands...he is a long...good thrower...and he doesn't drink."〔Liepa, John. 2006. "The Cincinnati Red Stockings and Cal McVey, Iowa's First Professional Baseball Player." Iowa Heritage Illustrated. Vol. 87, Issue 1. 12–17.〕 McVey was directly in the middle of the most controversial game of the Red Stockings' reported 84-game winning streak, 1869 and 1870. Playing the Troy Haymakers, with the game tied 17 to 17, McVey fouled off a pitch the catcher claimed to have caught on the first bounce. That would have been an out but the umpire disagreed. In the ensuing argument, Troy left the field and the game was awarded to Cincinnati on forfeit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cal McVey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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