Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player and Manager. Born in Pittston, Pennsylvania in 1869, Jennings played shortstop for the Louisville Colonels (1891-1893), Baltimore Orioles (1893-1899), Brooklyn Superbas (1899-1900, 1903), Philadelphia Phillies (1901-1902) and Detroit Tigers (1907, 1909, 1912 and 1918). While with the Orioles, Jennings captained the team to four straight appearances (1894-1897) in the Temple Cup world championships series (this series was the prelude to the World Series). One of the best players in baseball during his 1894-1898 peak, but probably one of the most unpopular due to the tactics used by the Orioles. He was disliked so much that in 1896 he set the record for being hit by a pitched ball 51 times, one time fracturing his skull, in large part due to his stance of crouching over the plate in an era long before batting helmets. This record stood for 75 years, and he still holds the record of being hit by a pitch 287 times in his career. Until the 1970s he was the only player ever to be hit by a pitch 40 times in a season, which he did every year from 1896 to 1898. In a 17-year big league career Jennings played in 1284 games, had a .312 batting average in 4895 (1526 hits) at bats, scored 992 runs and stole 359 bases, although most of those were before the statistic was redefined in 1898. Jennings went on to manage successfully, leading the Tigers from 1907 to 1920. In his first three years of managing, the team captured the American League pennant with their young star Ty Cobb. His final managerial record was 1184 wins and 995 losses. He then served as a coach with the New York Giants under manager John McGraw from 1921 to 1925, as the team won the 1921 and 1922 World Series and the National League pennant the following two seasons. It was said Jennings was in the early stages of tuberculosis as early as 1925 after suffering a nervous breakdown and died in 1928 of spinal meningitis. Jennings was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 by the Veterans Committee, who that year selected numerous stars of the 1880s and '90s; his remains one of the shortest careers by any member of the Hall, playing over 90 games only seven times.