Jack Doyle (baseball)

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Jack Doyle
Runs batted in
971
Stolen bases518
Teams
As player

As manager

  • 1895
    )
  • 1898
    )

John Joseph Doyle (October 25, 1869 – December 31, 1958) was an Irish born first baseman in Major League Baseball whose career spanned 17 seasons, mainly in the National League.[1] He was born in Killorglin, Ireland, and emigrated to the U.S. when he was a child, his family settling in Holyoke, Massachusetts.[2]

Playing career

After attending

pinch-hitter in pro ball, with Cleveland at Brooklyn on June 7, 1892. Patsy Tebeau was the manager and Doyle came through with a game-winning single.[2]

For the

runs batted in and stole 42 bases.[1]

Dirty Jack

Because of his aggressive playing style, Doyle was known as "Dirty Jack", often feuding with umpires, fans, opposing players, and even, at times, his own teammates.[5] On one occasion, in Cincinnati on July 4, 1900, while in the 3rd inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Doyle slugged umpire Bob Emslie after being called out on a steal attempt. Fans jumped from the stands as the two fought before being chased back by policemen. After players finally separated Doyle from Emslie, he was arrested and fined.[2] On July 1, 1901, when he was being harassed by a Polo Grounds fan, he jumped into the stands and hit him once with his left hand, reinjuring it after having broken it several weeks earlier.[6]

He carried on a lengthy feud with

Washington Senators in 1898.[2]

Minor league success

In 1905, after playing one game with the

New York Highlanders, Doyle became manager of Toledo of the Western Association. One year later, in 1906, he was named the manager of the Des Moines Champions, so named because they won the league championship the previous year, and won it again under Doyle's helm. Following his championship season at Des Moines, he managed Milwaukee in 1907.[5]

Other career capacities

In 1908–09, the only years of his adult life spent outside of baseball, he served as

Bill Jurges, Charlie Root, Bill Lee, Augie Galan, Riggs Stephenson and Phil Cavarretta.[5] He remained in that capacity until his death on New Year's Eve 1958 at the age of 89. He was buried at St. Jerome Cemetery in Holyoke.[7]

Honors

In the Irish Baseball League, the annual award for best slugger is named "The 'Dirty' Jack Doyle" Silver Slugger Award. [8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Jack Doyle Stats". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Jack Doyle Biography". SABR.org. Archived from the original on 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
  3. ^ "Doyle Signed by New York: Famous Baseball Player to Captain the Team and Play First Base—Pleased with the Club's Outlook" (PDF). The New York Times. February 27, 1902.
  4. ^ A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward, pg. 352, by Bryan Di Salvatore
  5. ^ a b c "Top 100 Teams". minorleaguebaseball.com. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
  6. ^ "Jack Doyle". Baseballbiography.com. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
  7. ^ a b "Jack Doyle". Retrosheet.org. Retrieved 2007-02-17.
  8. ^ "Baseball Ireland Award Winners". baseballireland.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2009.

External links

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