Max Georg Carnarius, later known as Max Carey and nicknamed "Scoops," was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on January 11, 1890, to Frank and Catherine Carnarius and was buried in Coral Gables, Florida, on May 30, 1976. An outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1910 to 1926 and the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1926 to 1929, he later managed the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1932 to 1933 and served as a manager and commissioner in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. He set National League records for career stolen bases with 738, seasons leading the league with 10, outfield games with 2421, chances with 6702, putouts with 6363, assists with 339, double plays with 86, six seasons with 400 or more putouts, and nine games with five or more hits. Among records he held were reaching base nine times in a single game in 1922, a 1922 base-stealing percentage of .962 with 51 steals in 53 attempts, and a 1925 World Series batting average of .48 with 20 or more at bats. National media named him the best outfielder and best base runner for 1900 to 1950, and he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1961 and as an inaugural inductee into the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame in Jasper, Indiana, in 1979. On July 7, 1922, in an 18-inning game against John McGraw's world champion New York Giants at the Polo Grounds, he reached base nine times in nine at bats, got six hits, drew three walks, stole three bases including home, and made several outstanding plays in center field, a performance McGraw later called the best single-game performance he ever saw. A switch hitter who compiled a .285 batting average over 20 major league seasons, he was especially remembered for defense and base stealing. The Terre Haute native had attended Immanuel Lutheran Grade School, played on Vigo County baseball diamonds, starred for the local Champagne Velvets in 1908, and was a track star at Concordia College in 1909 before signing with South Bend of the Class B Central League under the name Carey to protect his amateur status. He led South Bend to the league title the next year and was then purchased by Pittsburgh. In 1925 he hit .343 to help the Pirates win the National League pennant, stole second, third, and home in the same inning twice during August, and, while playing with fractured ribs, batted .458 in the World Series as Pittsburgh defeated the Washington Senators, whose pitching staff was headed by Hall of Famers Walter Johnson and Stan Coveleski. In 1958 The Sporting News selected him as the most efficient base stealer of all time over Ty Cobb, and in 1961 Red Smith wrote that he was unquestionably the best outfielder of his time and perhaps of any time. He was also remembered as a gentleman on and off the field, an ambassador for his hometown and for baseball, and for the motto, "Run hard slide hard, but play clean."