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Jim McCormick (pitcher)
Scottish baseball player (1856–1918) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James McCormick (3 November 1856 – 10 March 1918) was a Scottish right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. A native of Glasgow (he was actually born outside the Glasgow boundary, in Thornliebank, Renfrewshire), he was the first ballplayer born in Scotland to appear in a major league game.
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Jim McCormick | |
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Pitcher | |
Born: (1856-11-03)3 November 1856 Glasgow, Scotland | |
Died: 10 March 1918(1918-03-10) (aged 61) Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
May 20, 1878, for the Indianapolis Blues | |
Last MLB appearance | |
October 7, 1887, for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 265–214 |
Earned run average | 2.43 |
Strikeouts | 1,704 |
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McCormick was great friends with Mike "King" Kelly and was also very well liked by Cap Anson, two of the great personalities of early baseball. Anson was McCormick's captain-manager in 1885 and 1886, when Chicago won its last 19th-century pennants.