Reds, St. Louis Browns and Boston Red Sox spanning 1915–1929, leading the American League with 39 home runs and 155 RBI in 1922, while adding 39 stolen bases to become the first big leaguer to reach the 30 HR/30 SB plateau in the same season. January 24 – George Payne, 69, pitcher for the 1920 Chicago White Sox. January 28 – Walter Beall, 59, relief pitcher who played for the New York Yankees and Washington Senators spanning five seasons from 1924–1929, being also a member of Yankees teams that won American League pennants in 1926 and 1927. January 30 – Toots Shultz, 70, pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in parts of two seasons from 1911-12. February February 7 – Nap Lajoie, 84, Hall of Fame second baseman and manager whose 21-year career from 1896–1916 included stints with the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland Bronchos, who posted a .338/.380/.466 batting line with 3,243 hits and 380 stolen bases in his career; winning five American League batting crowns, including a modern-era record with a .426 batting average in 1901, when he hit 14 home runs and collected 125 runs batted in to become the First Triple Crown winner in American League history, winning two more RBI titles and compiling seventeen seasons with a.300 average or better, while leading in putouts five times, assists three times, double plays five times and fielding percentage four times, becoming a player/manager for the Bronchos in 1903, renamed itself after him the Naps. February 12 – Dode Paskert, 77, one of the finest defensive center fielders of the dead-ball era and a reliable leadoff hitter who played from 1907 through 1921 for four National League clubs, batting third in the lineup in each game of the 1915 World Series for the Philadelphia Phillies against the Boston Red Sox, while batting clean-up for the Chicago Cubs in each game of the 1918 World Series, also against the Red Sox. February 14 – Eddie Higgins, 70, pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1909 to 1910. February 15 – Bruce Caldwell, 74, two-sport athlete who played as an outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball for the 1928 Cleveland Indians and 1932 Brooklyn Dodgers, as well as a running back in the National Football League for the New York Giants in 1928. February 15 – Lefty Houtz, 83, 19th century third baseman for