Jack Lelivelt

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Dutch baseball player (1885–1941)

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Field	Value
name	Jack Lelivelt
image	Jack Lelivelt of the Los Angeles Angels.jpg
caption	Lelivelt with the Los Angeles Angels
position	Outfielder
bats	Left
throws	Left
birth_date	November 14, 1885
birth_place	Amsterdam, Netherlands
death_date
death_place	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
debutleague	MLB
debutdate	June 24
debutyear	1909
debutteam	Washington Senators
finalleague	MLB
finaldate	June 13
finalyear	1914
finalteam	Cleveland Naps
statleague	MLB
stat1label	Batting average
stat1value	.301
stat2label	Home runs
stat2value	2
stat3label	Runs batted in
stat3value	126
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Washington Senators (1909–1911)
New York Highlanders / Yankees (1912–1913)
Cleveland Naps (1913–1914) John Frank Lelivelt (November 14, 1885 – January 20, 1941) was a Dutch-American professional baseball outfielder who played for the Washington Senators, New York Highlanders / Yankees and Cleveland Naps. While playing for the Rochester Hustlers, he set the International League record for the longest hitting streak with a 42-game hitting streak in . The record was broken by Brandon Watson in .

Playing career

Early years

Lelivelt was born as Johannes Franciscus Lelivelt in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 14 November 1885. His father was Franciscus Zacharias Lelivelt (later Frank) from Groessen, his mother was Theodra Mattijssen (later Dora) from Renkum. They married in Amsterdam on 19 June 1884, and emigrated to the US in 1887. Lelivelt made his major league debut with the Washington Senators in . He saw his most playing time during his years in Washington. However, his batting average would increase after he left the Senators.

Record hitting streak

Lelivelt started the 1912 season with the Rochester Hustlers. The Hustlers had won pennants each of the three previous years. After his record hitting streak, the first-place Hustlers sold Lelivelt and Tommy McMillen to the New York Highlanders. Lelivelt had a .351 batting average with 33 doubles for the Hustlers. The Toronto Maple Leafs passed the Hustlers in the standings. The city of Rochester would not have another International League champion until 1928. The record hitting streak was lost to history until the 2007 version of the International League Record Book recognized the hitting streak. Previous versions of the book would list the longest hitting streak as 36 games by Bill Sweeney in .

Later years

Lelivelt played from 1912 until 1914 as a part-time player. Despite having a .301 career major league average, he never was a full-time player. In 1914, several Naps players split time between the Cleveland Naps and the American Association Cleveland Bearcats in an effort to prevent the Federal League from moving a team to Cleveland. Lelivelt was one of those players. He would play in the minor leagues until retiring as a player in 1925.

Managerial career and death

Lelivelt became a player-manager for the Western League's Omaha franchise in 1920. From 1929 through 1937, he managed the Los Angeles Angels (PCL), including the 1934 team that won 137 out of 187 games (.733) and is hailed as one of the minor league's "greatest teams". When Emile Sick purchased the Seattle Rainiers, one of his first projects was bringing Lelivelt to Seattle. His Seattle Rainiers teams won Pacific Coast League titles in 1939 and 1940. Except for 1937, he managed every year until his death from a heart attack in January 1941 at the age of 55. He was interred in Glendale, California's Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery.

In 1943, Lelivelt was posthumously elected to the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame.

References

"Lelivelt hit everywhere he played". minorleaguebaseball.com.
(July 2025). "Finals were ugly with Cavs". democratandchronicle.com.
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(July 2025). "Finals were ugly with Cavs". democratandchronicle.com.
"Lelivelt hit everywhere he played". minorleaguebaseball.com.
Lee, Bill. (2009). "The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More 7,600 Major League Players and Others". McFarland & Company.

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