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Jack Leary
John J. Leary (July, 1857 – December 6, 1905) was an American Major League Baseball player, who played for seven different teams during his five-year career. Jack died at the age of 48 in his hometown of New Haven, Connecticut. References External links 1857 births 1905 deaths Baseball players from New Haven, Connecticut Major League Baseball pitchers Major League Baseball outfielders Major League Baseball shortstops Major League Baseball third basemen Boston Red Caps players Detroit Wolverines players Baltimore Orioles (AA) players Louisville Eclipse players Altoona Mountain Citys players Pittsburgh Alleghenys players Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies players 19th-century baseball players Erie (minor league baseball) players Lynn Live Oaks players Manchester (minor league baseball) players San Francisco Bay City players New York New Yorks players New York Metropolitans (minor league) players Washington Nationals (minor league) players Albany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infielder
An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field. Standard arrangement of positions In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns playing offensive and defensive roles. Although there are many rules to baseball, in general the team playing offense tries to score runs by batting balls into the field that enable runners to make a complete circuit of the four bases. The team playing in the field tries to prevent runs by catching the ball before it hits the ground, by tagging runners with the ball while they are not touching a base, or by throwing the ball to first base before the batter who hit the ball can run from home plate to first base. There are nine defensive positions on a baseball field. The part of the baseball field closest to the batter (shown in the diagram as light brown) is known as the "infield" (as opposed to the "outfield", the part of the field furthest from the batter, shown in the diagr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball Players From New Haven, Connecticut
Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch (baseball), plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team (baseball), fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a Baseball (ball), ball that a player on the batting team (baseball), batting team, called the Batter (baseball), batter, tries to hit with a baseball bat, bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the Base (baseball), bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "Run (baseball), runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming Base running, runners, and to prevent runners' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
