Hal Rhyne

Hal Rhyne
Hal Rhyne
	Shortstop
	Born: March 30, 1899; Paso Robles, California
	Died: January 7, 1971 (aged 71); Orangevale, California
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
	April 18, 1926, for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Last MLB appearance
	October 1, 1933, for the Chicago White Sox
MLB statistics
Batting average	.250
Home runs	2
Runs batted in	192
	Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
	Pittsburgh Pirates (1926–27); Boston Red Sox (1929–32); Chicago White Sox (1933);

Harold J. Rhyne (March 30, 1899 – January 7, 1971) was an infielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly at shortstop from 1926 through 1933 for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1926–1927), Boston Red Sox (1929–1932) and Chicago White Sox (1933). He batted and threw right-handed.

In a seven-season career, Rhyne was a .250 hitter (508-for-2031) with two home runs and 192 RBI in 655 games, including 252 runs, 98 doubles, 22 triple, and 13 stolen bases. His best season statistically was 1931, when he posted career numbers in average (.273), runs (75), RBI (51), hits (154) and on-base percentage (.341), and also was considered in the American League MVP vote.

Rhyne's minor league career spanned twenty seasons, between 1921 and 1940. After starting his career with the Des Moines Boosters, he joined the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League. With the exception of the seasons he spent in the majors, he played for the Seals until 1938, when he joined the Tacoma Tigers of the Western International League partway through the season. He played for the Tigers through the end of his professional playing career.

Rhyne is one of only two major leaguers to have been born in Paso Robles, CA. The other is Jason Botts.^[1] He died at the age of 71 in Orangevale, California and is buried in Sacramento City Cemetery in Sacramento, California. He has a small, plain headstone.