league career, Stone posted a .301 batting average (984-for-3271) with 23 home runs and 268 RBIs in 848 games played. He is the only player who won the American League batting title in the years from 1901 through 1928, who was not made a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Stone entered the banking industry in Coleridge, Nebraska, and owned a Western League team in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1916. In 1940, he and his wife Pearl moved to Clinton, Iowa. Stone died of a heart attack in Clinton at the age of 68. The burial was at Coleridge Cemetery, in Coleridge, Nebraska. In 1970 he was inducted into The Des Moines Registers Iowa Sports Hall of Fame. See also List of Major League Baseball batting champions List of select Jewish baseball players References External links George Stone MLB Outfielder - Baseballbiography.com "Legends of the Game: George Stone" "Lost Nation's Stone into "Hall" – Iowan's Batting Feat: Beat Cobb", 4/5/70 "An Additional Game-Played Found for George Stone of the St. Louis Browns", SABR Baseball Records Committee Newsletter, 2/13/07 1876 births 1945 deaths American League batting champions Boston Americans players Major League Baseball left fielders Baseball players from Iowa Jewish American baseball players Jewish Major League Baseball players People from Lost Nation, Iowa People from Cedar County, Nebraska St. Louis Browns players Omaha Omahogs players Omaha Indians players Peoria Distillers players Milwaukee Creams players Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players Portland Beavers players