Joe Taylor (baseball)
| Joe Taylor | |||
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| Outfielder | |||
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Born: March 2, 1926 Chapman, Alabama | |||
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Died: March 18, 1993 (aged 67) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |||
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 26, 1954, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| July 21, 1959, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .249 | ||
| Home runs | 9 | ||
| RBI | 31 | ||
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Joe Cephus Taylor (March 2, 1926 – March 18, 1993)[1][2][3] was an American professional baseball outfielder . Taylor's career began in semipro baseball in 1946. From 1949 to 1951, he played in the Negro leagues before joining the baseball minor leagues. He played four seasons in Major League Baseball, for a total of 81 games on four different teams (1954 for the Philadelphia Athletics, 1957 for the Cincinnati Redlegs, part of the 1958 season for the St. Louis Cardinals and 1958–1959 for the Baltimore Orioles). In addition, he played for the Leones del Caracas club of the Venezuela Winter League.[4]
References
- ↑ "Joe Taylor". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
- ↑ "Joe Taylor, biography". Baseball Reference. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
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- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- ↑ Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics
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