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{{short description|American baseball player (1886-1974)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
| name        = Claud Derrick
| image       = ClaudDerrickLOC.jpg
| caption     =
| team        =
| number      =
| position    = [[Shortstop]]
| positionplain = 
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1886|6|11}}
| birth_place  = [[Burton, Georgia]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1974|7|15|1886|6|11}}
| death_place  = [[Clayton, Georgia]]
| bats        = Right
| throws      = Right
|debutleague = MLB
| debutdate   = September 8
| debutyear   = 1910
| debutteam   = [[Philadelphia Athletics]]
|finalleague = MLB
| finaldate   = October 5
| finalyear   = 1914
| finalteam   = [[Chicago Cubs]]
| statyear    =
|statleague = MLB
| stat1label  = [[Hit (baseball)|Hits]]
| stat1value  = 79
| stat2label  = [[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
| stat2value  = .242
| stat3label  = [[Stolen base]]s
| stat3value  = 13
| awards      =
| teams       = 
* [[Philadelphia Athletics]] ({{Baseball year|1910}}–{{Baseball year|1912}})
* [[New York Yankees]] ({{Baseball year|1913}})
* [[Cincinnati Reds]] ({{Baseball year|1914}})
* [[Chicago Cubs]] ({{Baseball year|1914}})
|highlights=
*[[World Series]] champion: [[1910 World Series|1910]], [[1911 World Series|1911]]
}}

'''Claud Lester (Deek) Derrick''' was a [[Major League Baseball]] [[shortstop]]. He was born on June 11, 1886, in [[Burton, Georgia]]. Claud attended college at the [[University of Georgia]]. He played five seasons in his career, for the [[Philadelphia Athletics]] in {{Baseball year|1910}}-{{Baseball year|1912}}, the [[New York Yankees]] in {{Baseball year|1913}}, and the [[Cincinnati Reds]] and [[Chicago Cubs]] in {{Baseball year|1914}}. He had 79 career hits in 326 at-bats with one [[home run]] and 33 [[Run batted in|RBI]].

He was discovered by Athletics' first baseman and captain [[Harry Davis (1900s first baseman)|Harry Davis]] in 1909 while playing for the [[Greenville Spinners]] in the [[Carolina Association]] when Davis and a group of Athletics players were in Greenville.<ref name=reach>{{cite book|title=1912 Reach Guide|page=84|year=1912}}</ref>  The following year, Athletics' owner [[Connie Mack]] signed him to the Major Leagues from Greenville shortly before the [[1910 World Series]], which the Athletics won.<ref name=reach/>

Derrick died on July 15, 1974, in [[Clayton, Georgia]].

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Claud Derrick}}

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{{1910 Philadelphia Athletics}}
{{1911 Philadelphia Athletics}}

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[[Category:1886 births]]
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[[Category:Major League Baseball shortstops]]
[[Category:Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state)]]
[[Category:Philadelphia Athletics players]]
[[Category:New York Yankees players]]
[[Category:Chicago Cubs players]]
[[Category:Cincinnati Reds players]]
[[Category:Greenville Spinners players]]
[[Category:Macon Peaches players]]
[[Category:Columbia Gamecocks players]]
[[Category:Charleston Sea Gulls players]]
[[Category:Knoxville Appalachians players]]
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[[Category:Louisville Colonels (minor league) players]]
[[Category:Indianapolis Indians players]]
[[Category:Seattle Rainiers players]]
[[Category:Toledo Mud Hens players]]
[[Category:People from Rabun County, Georgia]]


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