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With Philadelphia runners on first and second in the fourth inning of a National League baseball game, Ernest Padgett, recruit shortstop of the Boston Braves, beheld a hot liner coming his way from the plate. Padgett speared the liner, touched second base, ran down and tagged the man coming off first. He had made the fourth unassisted triple play in the recorded history of baseball.*
* Other unassisted triple plays were made by Ball, Cleveland (1905) ; Wambsganss, Cleveland (in the 1920 World’s Series against Brooklyn) ; Burns, Boston Red Sox (1923).
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