Thomas Jefferson Pratt (January 26, 1844 – September 28, 1908) was a professional
baseball
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 t ...
player who played for the
Philadelphia Athletics. He played in one game for the Athletics on October 18, 1871, getting two hits in six at-bats. Pratt, along with
Elvio Jiménez
Felix Elvio Jiménez Rivera (born January 6, 1940) is a former professional baseball left fielder who appeared in one game for the New York Yankees in 1964.
Career
The , rookie was signed by the Yankees as an amateur free agent before the 1959 ...
and
Clarence Dow, are the only players to have six
at-bats in their only MLB game.
Prior to his brief professional career, he played with the old
Brooklyn Atlantics
The Atlantic Base Ball Club of Brooklyn ("Atlantic" or the "Brooklyn Atlantics") was baseball's first champion and its first dynasty. The team was also the first baseball club to visit the White House in 1865 at the invitation of President An ...
in the 1860s. He had an extensive career as an umpire after retiring as a player.
External links
Most at-bats in only MLB gameBaseball Reference
Sources
Major League Baseball first basemen
Baseball players from Massachusetts
Philadelphia Athletics (NABBP) players
Brooklyn Atlantics (NABBP) players
Philadelphia Athletics (NA) players
19th-century baseball players
1844 births
1908 deaths
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