Uke Clanton
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Eucal "Uke" Clanton (February 19, 1898 – February 24, 1960) was a
Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
first baseman A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. The first baseman is responsible for the majori ...
who played for one season. Nicknamed "Cat", he played for the
Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The Guardians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. Since , they have played at Progressive F ...
for one game on September 21, 1922. Clanton was one of a group of players that Indians
player-manager A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. A player-coach may be a head coach or an assistant coach. They may make changes to the sq ...
Tris Speaker Tristram Edgar Speaker (April 4, 1888 – December 8, 1958), nicknamed "the Gray Eagle", was an American professional baseball player. Considered one of the greatest players in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), he compiled a career bat ...
sent in partway through the game on September 21, 1922 done as an opportunity for fans to see various minor league prospects. Clanton died in an automobile accident in
Antlers, Oklahoma Antlers is a city in and the county seat of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,453 at the 2010 census, a 3.9 percent decline from 2,552 in 2000. The town was named for a kind of tree that becomes festooned with antl ...
.


References


External links

1898 births 1960 deaths Cleveland Indians players Major League Baseball first basemen Baseball players from Missouri Minor league baseball managers Road incident deaths in Oklahoma Ada Herefords players Coffeyville Refiners players {{US-baseball-first-baseman-stub