Tom Berry (baseball)
Appearance
Tom Berry | |
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Right fielder | |
Born: Chester, Pennsylvania | December 31, 1842|
Died: June 6, 1915 Chester, Pennsylvania | (aged 72)|
Batted: Unknown Threw: Unknown | |
MLB debut | |
September 2, 1871, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 2, 1871, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |
MLB statistics | |
Average | .250 |
Home runs | 0 |
RBI | 0 |
Teams | |
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Thomas Haney Berry (December 31, 1842 – June 6, 1915) was a professional baseball player who played for the Philadelphia Athletics in one game during the 1871 season. He had one hit in four at-bats in that game.
Berry was a soldier in the Union Army from 1862 to 1865 during the American Civil War.[1] He served in Company B of Sixteenth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A of the Thirty-Seventh Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and Company A of the Nineteenth Regiment. He died in 1915 in his home town of Chester, Pennsylvania of tuberculosis.[2]
References
- ^ "Those Who Served – Civil War". TheDeadballEra.com. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
- ^ "Tom Berry Death Certificate" (PDF). thedeadballera.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2013. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
Sources
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference