James Blaine "Rifle Jim" Middleton (May 28, 1889 – January 12, 1974) 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 a right-handed

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

over parts of two seasons (1917, 1921) with the

New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...

and

Detroit Tigers The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the American League (AL) Central division. One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was f ...

. For his career, he compiled a 7–12 record in 51 appearances, with a 4.51

earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number ...

and 40

strikeout In baseball or softball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during a time at bat. It usually means that the batter is out. A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters, and is deno ...

s. He was born and later died in

Argos, Indiana Argos is a town in Green and Walnut townships, Marshall County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,777 at the 2020 census. Geography Argos is located at (41.237732, -86.245976). According to the 2010 census, Argos has a total area of ...

, at the age of 84.

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1889 births 1974 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Indiana New York Giants (NL) players Detroit Tigers players People from Argos, Indiana Springfield Senators players Decatur Commodores players Decatur Nomads players Springfield Watchmakers players Davenport Blue Sox players Louisville Colonels (minor league) players Toledo Mud Hens players Portland Beavers players Fort Worth Panthers players Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players Seattle Indians players Portland Beavers managers {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub

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