Davy Jones (baseball)
American baseball player (1880-1972) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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David Jefferson Jones (June 30, 1880 – March 30, 1972), nicknamed "Kangaroo",[1] was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played fifteen seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers / St. Louis Browns, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and Pittsburgh Rebels. Jones played with some of the early legends of the game, including Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, Frank Chance, Mordecai Brown, Hugh Duffy and Jesse Burkett. Also, he played part of one year with the Chicago White Sox, where several of his teammates would later be implicated in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Jones was immortalized in the classic 1966 baseball book The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter.
Davy Jones | |
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Outfielder | |
Born: (1880-06-30)June 30, 1880 Cambria, Wisconsin, U.S. | |
Died: March 30, 1972(1972-03-30) (aged 91) Mankato, Minnesota, U.S. | |
Batted: Left Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
September 15, 1901, for the Milwaukee Brewers | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 2, 1918, for the Detroit Tigers | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .270 |
Home runs | 9 |
Runs batted in | 288 |
Teams | |
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Davy Jones was mostly a platoon rather than a full-time player who was decent with the bat and swift on his feet. He played in the major leagues from 1901 to 1918, compiling a .270 career batting average with 1,020 hits.