Hack Wilson Picks Up an RBI

Fifty-one years after his death, Hack Wilson got another run batted in.

Wilson’s record for RBIs in one season was increased to 191 Tuesday by the commissioner’s office.

Recently retired Chicago Tribune baseball writer Jerome Holtzman, now baseball’s historian, examined box scores and play-by-play accounts of each game of Wilson’s record-setting season for the Chicago Cubs in 1930. Seymour Siwoff and Steve Hirdt of the Elias Sports Bureau, baseball’s statisticians, and Rich Levin of the commissioner’s office also reviewed Wilson’s totals.

They said the missing RBI came from the second game of a doubleheader between Wilson’s Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds on July 28, 1930.

The commissioner’s office also gave Babe Ruth six additional walks, raising his record total to 2,062.

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