This Day in Baseball: Burns’s Triple Play

By Precious Sanders @pdsanders99

Red Sox first baseman George Burns completed an unassisted triple play against the Indians on September 14, 1923.  To accomplish the feat, Burns snared Frank Brower’s line drive, he then tagged Rube Lutzke coming from first, and and finally beat Riggs Stephenson in a sprint back to second.

George Burns in 1921 (Wikipedia)