Denny Mack

First baseman / Shortstop

Born: 1851
Easton, Pennsylvania

Died: April 10, 1888 (aged 36–37)
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

May 6, 1871, for the Rockford Forest Citys

Last MLB appearance

September 27, 1883, for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys

MLB statistics

Games played

373

Runs scored

309

Batting average

.228

Teams

As player

As manager

Louisville Eclipse (1882)

Dennis Joseph Mack, born as Dennis Joseph McGee, (1851 – April 10, 1888) was a professional baseball player who was a first baseman and shortstop in Major League Baseball for eight seasons from 1871 to 1883. He played for seven different teams, including as a player-manager for the Louisville Eclipse in 1882.

Mack spent three years at Villanova University, then joined the Rockford Forest Citys of the National Association for the 1871 season. The National Association was the first fully professional baseball league, and Rockford compiled a 4-21 record in its 25 games, finishing ninth in the nine-team league before folding at the season's end. Mack appeared in all 25 of his team's games, leading the team with 34 runs scored, 8 walks, and 12 stolen bases.

Mack went on to play the next three seasons in the National Association. During the last of these, 1874, he was involved in accusations of game fixing. On August 20, umpire Billy McLean came forward with allegations that a game between Mack's Philadelphia Whites and the had been thrown by the Philadelphia club. McLean claimed that Philadelphia's John Radcliffe had approached him with an offer of $175 in exchange for making calls favorable to the White Stockings. According to McLean, Radcliffe named four other players as complicit in the fix: Mack, Candy Cummings, Bill Craver, and Nat Hicks. The board of directors for the Whites met to consider these charges on September 1, and they elected not to pursue the matter further with any players but Radcliffe, describing McLean's claims as "hearsay". The stockholders of the club voted to expel Radcliffe on September 8, by a count of 26 to 15, but he appealed to the judiciary committee of the National Association, and was reinstated on March 2, due to what Henry Chadwick characterized as procedural errors during the course of his expulsion.

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