Joe Wright Baseball player

Joel Sherman Wright (1869 - September 20, 1909) was a professional baseball player. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Louisville Colonels and Pittsburgh Pirates in 1895-96, primarily as an outfielder.Wright started his professional baseball career in 1890 with the Ottawa team in the Illinois-Iowa League. He broke into the majors in 1895 with the Colonels, where he played the second-most games in the outfield on the team. The next season, he was traded to the Pirates in May.Wright returned to play in the minor leagues from 1897 to 1900. He died in 1909.

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Joe Wright
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1869
Birth place
Oshkosh Wisconsin
Date of deathSeptember 20, 1909
Place of death
Omaha Nebraska

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Baseball player

Career startJuly 14, 1895
Career endSeptember 18, 1896
batting sideLeft
former teams
Pittsburgh Pirates
Louisville Colonels
position
Center fielder
teams
Pittsburgh Pirates
Louisville Colonels
throwing sideLeft

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