Who holds the MLB record for hitting the most consecutive doubles in one game?

[Diamond_Dog]

Lou Boudreau, born this day in 1917.

Boudreau still holds the MLB record for hitting the most consecutive doubles in a game (four), set on July 14, 1946.

[Auggie]

1. Wow! I would have thought that record broken by now.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Ik, r?

Got that from Wikipedia so I hope it’s accurate.

[rurallib]

2. loved to listen to him on the Cub radio broadcasts so many years ago

Very low key and extremely knowledgeable

[Diamond_Dog]

4. I never realized he went into broadcasting until I saw it on Wikipedia

[bahboo]

5. I was going to post this...

he was superb. Can't totally remember, but was Vince Lloyd the play by play guy?

[rurallib]

6. Yes for most of his career in the booth

He started with another play-by-play announcer who was killed in a car wreck. Vince Lloyd then took that guy's place.

Boudreau could be accidental comic gold on commercials. Commercials were often live and Lou would fight words he couldn't pronounce to the death. There was one classic where he fought 'rhododendron' to a near deadly draw.

But he sure knew his baseball.

Who can forget when he left the booth to be one of the Cubs 'college of managers'?

[bahboo]

7. yep...I remember that "college of managers" well....

still lost haha. I think Jack Quinlan was the announcer killed in a car crash...

[rurallib]

8. Jack Quinlan - right!

[joemacdawson]

9. The Earl Of Doublin'

There was a guy named Earl Webb, who played from ‘25-‘33. He hit 67 doubles one year. Still the record, I think.
And Boudreau, as a player-manager was credited with the first infield shift. The Boudreau Shift. Radical at the time. Before sabermetrics and the like.