Tim Murnane
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| First baseman/Outfielder | |||
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Born: June 4, 1851 Naugatuck, Connecticut |
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Died: February 7, 1917 (aged 65) Boston, Massachusetts |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 26, 1872, for the Middletown Mansfields | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 19, 1884, for the Boston Reds | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .258 | ||
| Hits | 244 | ||
| Runs batted in | 63 | ||
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Timothy Hayes Murnane (June 4, 1851 – February 7, 1917) was an American sportswriter specializing in baseball, regarded as the leading baseball writer at The Boston Globe for about thirty years until his death. At the same time, he organized and led professional sports leagues and helped govern the baseball industry. He had been a professional baseball player, and played several seasons in the major leagues as a first baseman and center fielder.
Born in Naugatuck, Connecticut he acquired his Irish brogue from his father, an Irish immigrant. Little is known about his childhood; he mentioned in one of his Boston Globe columns that he attended school in a one-room rural schoolhouse. While some sources say Murnane attended Holy Cross prep school in Worcester, Massachusetts, this is doubtful; searches in the school's archives show there was another man with the same name who attended, but he was from Fitchburg MA, and Murnane was playing baseball in Connecticut during the years he was said to be at Holy Cross. During Murnane's early years in baseball, he played as a catcher for the Stratford, Connecticut club in 1869; some old-timers of that era said this club was called the Savannah Seniors. Murnane remained at catcher for two seasons with Savannah, but moved to center field while with the Middletown Mansfields club of Middletown, Connecticut, halfway through the 1871 season. The Mansfields entered the professional National Association for 1872, which begins Murnane's major league career in records that count the NA as a major league. He was the Mansfields' regular first basemen; that would be his most common fielding position but he played only a few full seasons "every day".
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