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George Robert Stone, nicknamed Silent George, (September 3, 1876 – January 3, 1945) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1903) and St. Louis Browns (1905–10). Stone batted and threw left-handed. He was the 1906 American League batting champion. ==Baseball career== Stone was Jewish.〔()〕 He left his career in banking at the age of 26 to join the Omaha team of the Western League. In December 1904 he was traded by the Boston Americans with cash to the St. Louis Browns for Jesse Burkett. In a seven-season career, Stone posted a .301 batting average with 23 home runs and 268 RBI in 848 games played. Stone died in Clinton, Iowa, at the age of 68. The burial was at Coleridge Cemetery, in Coleridge, Nebraska.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Stone )〕 In 1970 he was inducted into The Des Moines Register's Iowa Sports Hall of Fame. In a 1976 ''Esquire'' magazine article, sportswriter Harry Stein published an "All Time All-Star Argument Starter", consisting of five ethnic baseball teams. Stone was the right fielder on Stein's Jewish team. 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「George Stone (outfielder)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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