Players today have routinely strike out more times in a single game than Joe Sewell did during an entire season!
Joe Sewell was called up to the Indians to replace Ray Chapman who was killed earlier in the season by a beanball thrown by Carl Mays!
Joe Sewell was released by Cleveland in 1930. While with the club, he batted over .300 nine times in eleven seasons, drove in more than ninety runs five times, had more than one-hundred eighty hits eight times, and led the league in fielding average three times!
