Nate Berkenstock Baseball player

Nathan "Nate" Berkenstock (1831 – February 23, 1900) was the earliest-born professional baseball player, a year older than the next-"oldest" player, Lew Carl, who was born in 1832 and played in one game for the Baltimore Canaries in 1874. Berkenstock played in just one pro league game: the game that decided the first professional baseball championship in the United States, in 1871. He was Jewish.[1]

Personal facts

Nate Berkenstock
Alias (AKA)Berkenstock Nate
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1831
Date of deathFebruary 23, 1900

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Baseball player

Career startOctober 30, 1871
Career endOctober 30, 1871
batting sideUnknown
former teams
Philadelphia Athletics (1860–76)
position
Right fielder
teams
Philadelphia Athletics (1860–76)
National Association of Base Ball Players
throwing sideUnknown

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External resources

  1. http://books.google.com/books?id=qJEQTaE7JEAC&pg=PA10&dq=%22berkenstock%22+baseball++jewish&hl=en&ei=uk9HTrjPGY3VgAe958yyBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CFMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22berkenstock%22%20baseball%20%20jewish&f=false