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American baseball player
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Houston
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70 years
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George Watkins (June 4, 1900 – June 1, 1970) was a Major League Baseball player, born in Freestone County, Texas who owns the National League record for the highest batting average in his rookie season, batting .373 in his rookie year of 1930, with the St. Louis Cardinals.
He went on to play until the 1936 season with the New York Giants (1934), the Philadelphia Phillies (1935-1936), and Brooklyn Dodgers (1936), never again posting a batting average over .312. On June 24, 1931, Watkins hit three home runs in one game.
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