John Knight (baseball)
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John Wesley Knight (October 6, 1885 – December 19, 1965) was an American
Washington Senators. A native of Philadelphia, he was signed out of the University of Pennsylvania
.
Career
Knight was nineteen when he entered the majors in 1905 with the
Washington Senators (1912). Knight was in the Athletics 1905 Opening Day as a replacement for incumbent shortstop Monte Cross
, out until mid-season with a broken hand. He responded hitting .400 in June, but faded after that and finished the season at .203.
In the 1907 midseason Knight was sent to Boston in exchange for
MVP vote after hitting .268 with 32 extrabases and 62 runs batted in. Another deal in 1912 sent him to the Senators, who released him to Double-A Jersey City Giants
, but he returned to New York in 1913 to finish his major league career.
In an eight-year career, Knight was a .239 hitter (636-for-2664) with 14
right field, for a collective .933 fielding percentage
.
After that, his frequent travels took Knight to the
Denver Bears (Western League) and Sacramento Solons
(PCL), before returning to Denver as player-manager in 1928 for his last baseball season. He was just briefly at the University of Pennsylvania Dental School in 1912.
Knight died in Walnut Creek, California at age 80.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Baseball Library
- Retrosheet
- The Deadball Era