Davy Jones Baseball player

David Jefferson "Davy" Jones (June 30, 1880 – March 30, 1972), nicknamed "Kangaroo", was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played fifteen seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Browns, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and Pittsburgh Rebels. Jones played with some of the early legends of the game, including Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, Frank Chance, Three Finger Brown, Hugh Duffy and Jesse Burkett. Also, he played part of one year with the Chicago White Sox, where several of his teammates would later be implicated in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Jones was immortalized in the classic baseball book The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter.Davy Jones was mostly a platoon rather than a full-time player who was decent with the bat and swift on his feet. He played in the major leagues from 1901 to 1918, compiling a .270 career batting average with over 1,000 hits.

Personal facts

Davy Jones
Birth dateJune 30, 1880
Birth place
United States
Date of deathMarch 30, 1972
Place of death
United States

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Baseball player

Career startSeptember 15, 1901
Career endSeptember 02, 1918
batting sideLeft
former teams
Baltimore Orioles
Detroit Tigers
position
Outfield
teams
Baltimore Orioles
Chicago Cubs
Chicago White Sox
Detroit Tigers
Pittsburgh Rebels
throwing sideRight

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