Lyman Bostock, a professional baseball player with the Minnesota Twins and California Angels in the 1970s held the record for grounding into the most double plays (26) in a season for 30 years. He is the record holder no more as fellow Angel Vladimir Guerrero grounded into his 27th double play of the season last night.
Lyman Bostock was a promising young ball player with a career batting average of .311 whose life was cut short by a murderer. He finished in the top five in the league in batting for two of the four seasons he played professional ball and was known for donating parts of his baseball salary to good causes.
Lyman Bostock died after being shot by a man who did not intend to shoot him but rather the woman sitting next to him. While waiting at a stop light in Gary, Indiana, Lyman Bostock sat in the back seat of a car with a woman who was a friend of his uncle. The woman’s husband, convinced she was cheating on him, pulled beside their car and fired one shot into the backseat, hitting Bostock instead o her and cutting his life short at the age of 27.
Hopefully Lyman Bostock will be remembered in the future as a talented ball player because he no longer holds the record for grounding into the most double plays in a season.
Source: Baseball Biography Project