Rogers Hornsby

Rogers Hornsby is flat-out the greatest right-handed hitter who ever lived, and I will die on that hill. The man hit .424 in 1924 — the highest single-season average in modern baseball history — and his .358 career batting average is second only to Ty Cobb's all-time. From Winters, Texas, to the pinnacle of the National League, "the Rajah" was a pure, terrifying force at the plate, winning seven batting titles and two MVP awards along the way. He was notoriously blunt, hard to manage, and even harder to trade away without regretting it — but when you put up numbers like that in the Dead Ball era transitioning into the Live Ball era, you get to have opinions. A Hall of Famer in every sense, and still criminally underrated in modern baseball conversation.

Name (English)

Rogers Hornsby

Name (Japanese)

ロジャース・ホーンスビー

Reading

ろじゃーす・ほーんすびー

Born

April 27, 1896 – January 5, 1963

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

Origin

Winters, Texas, United States

Occupation

baseball player

High school

North Side High School

• Official sitehttp://www.rogershornsby.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers%20Hornsby
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q262945

Tags

• Texas
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.