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Harry Danning (September 6, 1911 – November 29, 2004), was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career as a catcher for the New York Giants, and was considered to be both an excellent hitter and one of the top defensive catchers of his era.〔 He batted and threw right-handed and was a member of the National League all-star team in 1938, 1939, 1940, and 1941. Danning, who was Jewish, was nicknamed "Harry The Horse" for Damon Runyon's Broadway character.〔(Harry Danning Obituary at The New York Times )〕 He attended Los Angeles High School in Los Angeles. His brother, Ike Danning, played for the St. Louis Browns in . ==Baseball career== Danning first played with the New York Giants in 1933. From 1934 to 1936, he served as the Giants reserve catcher, working behind Gus Mancuso. In the 1937 season, Danning and Mancuso shared the catching duties with Danning appearing in 93 games, while Mancuso appeared in 86 games. In 1938 Danning took over the role as the Giants starting catcher. He was selected for the National League All-Star squad in four consecutive years (1938–41), played for the Giants team which defeated the Washington Senators in the 1933 World Series championship, and appeared in the pennant-winning clubs that were defeated by the New York Yankees in the 1936 and 1937 World Series.〔 From 1938 through 1940 Danning hit .306, .313, and .300, and finished in the top 10 in National League MVP voting in 1939 (9th) and 1940 (7th). He collected career highs in home runs (16) in 1939, and in RBIs (91) in 1940.〔 He led all National League catchers with a .991 fielding average in 1939. On June 9, 1939 against the Cincinnati Reds at the Polo Grounds Danning was one of five Giants players to hit a home run in the fourth inning, as the Giants broke the previous record of four home runs by a team in one inning. Remarkably, all five of the home runs hit by the Giants came after two outs had been recorded in the inning. Then, on June 15, 1940, he hit for the cycle in a game against Pittsburgh. His home run came on an inside-the-park home run that landed on the fly in front of the Giants' clubhouse, wedged behind the Eddie Grant memorial. No player since then has hit an inside-the-park home run as a component of hitting for the cycle. Through 2010, he was ninth all-time in career hits (behind Al Rosen) among Jewish major league baseball players. 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「Harry Danning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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