Kenneth Frederick Jones (April 13, 1903 – May 15, 1991), nicknamed "Broadway", 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 te ...
.
Life
An alumnus of
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
, he was born in
Dover, New Jersey
Dover is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Located on the Rockaway River, Dover is about west of New York City and about west of Newark, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 18,157, and died in
Hartford, Connecticut at the age of 88.
Career
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 (1924, 1930) with the
Detroit Tigers and
Boston Braves. For his career, he compiled a 0–1 record, with a 5.40
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 4
strikeouts in 21⅔ innings pitched.
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1903 births
1991 deaths
Detroit Tigers players
Boston Braves players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Baseball players from New Jersey
Birmingham Barons players
Memphis Chickasaws players
Pittsfield Hillies players
Providence Grays (minor league) players
Newark Bears (International League) players
Norfolk Tars players
Reading Keystones players
Georgetown University alumni
People from Dover, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Morris County, New Jersey
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