Joseph Akin Murphy (July 7, 1866 – March 28, 1951) was a

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 ...

for

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in the 19th century. He played collegiate ball at

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and played professionally for the Cincinnati Red Stockings,

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and

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