Jack Fox Baseball player

John Paul "Jack" Fox (May 21, 1885 – June 28, 1963) was a professional baseball player whose career spanned 11 seasons, including one in Major League Baseball. During that one season in 1908, Fox played with the Philadelphia Athletics. Fox compiled a major league batting average of .200 with two runs, six hits and two stolen bases in nine games played. Fox also played in the minor leagues with the Class-C Poughkeepsie Colts (1906), the Class-B Albany Senators (1906–07), the Class-A Jersey City Skeeters (1908), the Class-A Memphis Egyptians (1908), the Class-B Wilkes-Barre Barons (1909), the Class-B Troy Trojans, the Class-A Lincoln Railsplitters (1910–11), the Class-B Harrisburg Senators (1912–14), the Class-D Bradford Drillers (1914) and the Class-B Scranton Miners (1915–16). He started his minor league career as an outfielder, but later converted into a pitcher. Fox compiled a career minor league batting average of .251 with 670 hits in 694 games played. As a pitcher, he compiled a win–loss record of 90–63 in 185 career minor league games pitched. Fox batted and threw right-handed.

Personal facts

Jack Fox
Alias (AKA)Fox John
Birth dateMay 21, 1885
Birth place
Reading Pennsylvania
Date of deathJune 28, 1963

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Baseball player

Career startJune 02, 1908
Career endJune 20, 1908
batting sideRight
former teams
History of the Philadelphia Athletics
position
Outfielder
Pitcher
teams
History of the Philadelphia Athletics
throwing sideRight

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