Edwin B. Pinkham (August 1846 – December 19, 1906) was a professional baseball player. He played one season of
Major League Baseball
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as an
infielder
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Standard arrangement of positions
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in 1871 for the
Chicago White Stockings.
Pinkham grew up in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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and enlisted as a teenager
in the
47th New York Volunteer Infantry
The 47th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 47th New York Infantry was organized at New York City, New York and mustered in for three years service on September 14, 18 ...
on May 27, 1862.
After playing for the White Stockings, Pinkham returned to New York to raise
beets
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.
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1846 births
1906 deaths
19th-century baseball players
Major League Baseball infielders
Brooklyn Eckfords (NABBP) players
Brooklyn Enterprise players
Chicago White Stockings (NABBP) players
Chicago White Stockings players
Baseball players from Brooklyn
Union Army soldiers
Burials at Cypress Hills Cemetery
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