Once upon a time stealing home was a cherished art in baseball. The runner would carefully take a long lead off third base and suddenly, with the pitcher in a deliberate windup, streak for the plate as the ball and the catcher converged on him in a cloud of dirt. Safe or out? And if he were safe, he had not only stolen a base, he had also stolen a run.
When baseball was a different game in a different era, when one run often determined a victory or a defeat, Ty Cobb stole home a record 50 times in his career. Max Carey did it 33 times for the National League record. Cobb, Eddie Collins and Joe Jackson were among nine players who stole home twice in the same game. Vic Power, as the Cleveland Indians' first baseman in 1958, was the last to do it twice in the same game.
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