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Maisel held the Yankee team record with 74 steals in a season (1914) until Rickey Henderson stole 80 in 1985. He was the Yankees' everyday third baseman in 1914, led the AL in steals, and reached career highs in runs (78), RBI (47), walks (76), and doubles (23). He improved to .281 in 1915 and stole second, third, and home in one game on April 17. After suffering a broken collarbone in 1916, Maisel never again hit better than .232. He stole home 14 times in his career, which ties him for 16th all-time. His younger brother, George, spent four years in the majors. (SFS)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » August 8, 1913: The Highlanders pick up 3B Fritz Maisel from Baltimore (IL) in exchange for 3B Ezra Midkiff (.197) and OF Bert Daniels (.216). Daniels will return to the majors next year with the Reds and improve his average by three points. » April 14, 1914: Before 22,000 at the Polo Grounds, the Yankees rock the World Champion Athletics, 8–2, driving Joe Bush from the mound after two innings. With only one starter, Roy Hartzell, back from last year's opening lineup, New York scores four in the first and would have scored another in the 2nd inning but Jeff Sweeney falls rounding 3B. When the burly catcher is helped to his feet by coach and manager Frank Chance, he is declared out by Billy Evans: a new rule prohibits coaches from helping runners. Sweeney redeems himself when he and pitcher Marty McHale pull off a double steal. New York has seven steals, including two by Sweeney and Fritz Maisel, who steals 2B and 3B in the 4th inning. Maisel will swipe 74 bases on the year, while Sweeney will pick up 19, tops for Yankee catchers. » April 17, 1915: In a 9–1 Yankee win over Philadelphia, Fritz Maisel steals 2B, 3B, and home, though not in the same frame. » August 17, 1915: Fritz Maisel of the Yankees steals 2B, 3B, and home in the 9th inning against Philadelphia. » April 12, 1916: The Red Sox trade star outfielder Tris Speaker, who did not take to the notion of his salary being cut, to Cleveland for two players -- Sam Jones and Fred Thomas -- and $50,000. Speaker will hold out for $10,000 of the purchase price: Ban Johnson will finally intervene and Speaker will collect. A few days earlier, the Yankees had turned down the offer of Speaker for cash and Fritz Maisel. » April 26, 1916: Yankee Fritz Maisel does his part to keep the score down by getting thrown out three times trying to steal against the A's.The Yankees still win, 9–0. » June 27, 1916: Boston's Babe Ruth allows two runs in the first inning, but settles down to beat the A's, 7-2, while striking out 10. Red Sox infielder Larry Gardner is caught stealing three times, the 2nd time this year that A's catchers have caught a base runner three times (New York's Fritz Maisel, April 26). On June 29th, Lee Magee will be caught three times by the A's while trying to steal, and not until Rickey Henderson, in 1982, will an AL runner be cut down thrice in a game. » January 22, 1918: The Yankees trade P Nick Cullop, P Urban Shocker, C Les Nunamaker, 3B Fritz Maisel, and infielder Joe Gedeon to the Browns for P Eddie Plank and 2B Del Pratt. Plank, a 300-game winner, retires, but Pratt gives New York three good years at 2B. Shocker is the gem, posting four straight seasons of 20 or more wins in St. Louis. Maisel, who the Yankees refused to trade in early 1916 for either Boston's Tris Speaker (and cash) or Chicago's Joe Jackson, will hit just .232 in 90 games and be gone. » September 25, 1985: Rickey Henderson steals his 75th base of the season in the Yankees 10–2 win over Detroit, breaking the club record of 74 set by Fritz Maisel in 1914.