James Earl "Ike" McAuley (August 19, 1891 – April 6, 1928) born in

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, USA, was a

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for the

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(1914–16),

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(1917) and

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(1925). From 1920–25, he played for the minor-league

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. In five seasons he played in sixty-four games and had 179 at bats, fourteen runs, forty-four hits, eight doubles, two triples, thirteen RBI, one stolen base, eleven walks, a .246 batting average, a .293 on-base percentage, a .313 slugging percentage, fifty-six total bases and thirteen sacrifice hits. He died in

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at the age of thirty-six.

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