Andy Cohen (baseball)
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| Second baseman | |||
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Born: October 25, 1904 Baltimore, Maryland |
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Died: October 29, 1988 (aged 84) El Paso, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 6, 1926, for the New York Giants | |||
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| October 5, 1929, for the New York Giants | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .281 | ||
| Home runs | 14 | ||
| RBIs | 114 | ||
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Andrew Howard Cohen, the "Tuscaloosa Terror", (October 25, 1904 – October 29, 1988) was a second baseman in Major League Baseball. He played from 1926–29 for the New York Giants.
Cohen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Jewish parents who had been born in Europe. Though most sources give his full birth name as "Andrew Howard Cohen," a July 1928 profile published in The New York Times calls him "Andrew Jackson Cohen", citing his insistence on retaining his name despite pressure to change it, saying that "he had done pretty well up to then as Andrew Jackson Cohen and he would continue under that name", besides it would hurt his mother to play under an assumed name.
Cohen's family moved to El Paso, Texas, when he was four years old. Cohen was a high school star in baseball, basketball, and football, and was awarded a scholarship to the University of Alabama, where he played all three sports. Cohen left college early and signed a minor league contract to play in the Texas League.
In 1925 Cohen batted .312 for Waco of the Texas League.
In 1927, he batted .353 for the Buffalo Bisons, with a .508 slugging percentage. In 1931 he batted .317 for Newark of the International League.
Cohen's success in the Texas League drew the attention of John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, who had been looking to sign a Jewish player to help draw crowds to compete with the New York Yankees and Babe Ruth playing across the Harlem River. In May 1926, the Giants purchased Cohen's contract for $20,000 ($271,000 today) from the Waco team in the Texas League.
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