Joseph E. Dowie (July 15, 1865 – March 4, 1917) 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 (1889) with the

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. For his career, he compiled a .227

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in 75

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s, with eight

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. He was born and later died in

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at the age of 51.

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