John Williams Joseph "Bunny" Roser (November 15, 1901 – May 6, 1979) nicknamed "Jack", was a professional

baseball player Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

. He was an

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for one season (1923) with the

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. For his career, he compiled a .239 batting average in 113

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s, with 16

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. He was born in

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and died in Rocky Hill, Connecticut at the age of 77.

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