William Wilkes Covington (March 19, 1887 – December 10, 1931) 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 ...

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. He played for the Detroit Tigers."Tex Covington Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-24. Appearing in 31 games, he posted a 4.10

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. He pitched 147 innings between 1911-1912. He made no errors in 1911, but three in 1912, greatly affected his career fielding percentage (.929). His brother Sam also played in the major leagues.

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