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Odwell hit only one home run as a Reds rookie in 1904, but his nine the next season led the NL. Teammate Cy Seymour, with eight homers and the league batting and RBI titles, 7 x x missed the Triple Crown because of Odwell's home run championship. In two more ML seasons, Odwell never homered again. (BC)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » October 7, 1905: Cincinnati's Fred Odwell lines an inside the park homer, off St. Louis rookie Buster Brown, to edge out teammate Cy Seymour for the NL home run title. Odwell leads the NL with nine round trippers, but will never hit another homer. » September 15, 1907: Boston slugger Dave Brain hits his 10th homer, off the Giants Red Ames. Brain's ten round trippers will lead the NL this year, but he will never hit another. The same fate befell Fred Odwell two years ago. Brain will be sold to the Reds in February, the same route that will taken by the 1910 NL homer champion, Fred Beck.