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A textile mill worker who had taken up baseball as a semipro for weekend diversion, Hugh Duffy went on to set the MLB single-season record for batting average (.440 if you were wondering). In fact, from 1891 through 1900, Duffy knocked in 100 runs or more eight times. In 1894 Duffy had one of the greatest seasons in baseball history, leading the league with 18 home runs, with 145 RBI and a .440 batting average (see Major League Baseball Triple Crown). Duffy's .440 average is the major league single-season batting average record. At one point during the season, Duffy had a 26-game hitting streak.
Useless fact - both Tommy McCarthy and Duffy played together on the same Boston team and became lifelong friends and, for a time, partners in a popular Boston bowling alley/saloon. Tommy and Hugh are both buried here at the same cemetery.
In 1,737 games spread over 17 seasons, Hugh had batted .326, with 1,302 RBIs and 1,554 runs scored. His 550 extra-base hits included 106 home runs, seventh-highest for a player primarily from the 1893-1919 era. Duffy also stole 574 bases and was an excellent outfield defender. On top of all that, he had joined with Tommy McCarthy to devise innovative game tactics, both offensively and in the field.
In March 1953, after nearly 45 years as a coach and scout for a number of teams, an 86-year-old Duffy reported to spring training, spending hours in uniform instructing Red Sox recruits on the fine points of batting. But the end was now coming into view. Later that year, Nora Duffy died, bringing to a close a happy but childless 57-year marriage. Hugh, suffering from prostate cancer, succumbed to a fatal heart attack at his home in the Brighton section of Boston on October 19, 1954. He was 87.
He is buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery just south of Boston, Massachusetts in the town of Roslindale. His grave and that of his extended family is 40 feet downhill from the corner of Section 3 that borders Section 4 on Maple Avenue on the road. His lot number is Lot 45 but the monuments do not appear to be marked in this section. From the corner of Section 3 his headstone can be found 40 feet down the road from the John L. Sullivan monument.
Tommy McCarthy can be found in Section 9, Range 26, Grave 74.
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