John Besson "Brewery Jack" Taylor (May 23, 1873 – February 7, 1900) was a baseball player in the National League from 1891 to 1899.

Career

Taylor is often confused with John W. "Jack" Taylor, who also played in the NL during an overlapping period. His real name has also been erroneously published as John Budd Taylor in many sources, perhaps confused with the

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/ref> John Besson Taylor was born in Sandy Hill, Maryland and moved to

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as a young child, where he played with future Major League contemporaries Jack Cronin,

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, and

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. "Brewery Jack" was a right-handed pitcher with a career record and 120 wins and 117 losses. His nine-season career consisted of (in chronological order) one game for the 1891

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, six seasons with the

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, one with the St. Louis Browns, and a final one with the

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. While an ace pitcher, Taylor was known for arguing with umpire calls and (as his nickname implies) for his propensity for drinking. Taylor was still considered active in the National League during planning for the 1900 season, but died of Bright's disease in February of that year. He is buried near his mother at Fairview Cemetery in the

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neighborhood of Staten Island.

Legacy

Taylor was inducted into the Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. He is also enshrined in 2012 into the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame in Salisbury, Maryland.

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