Lee King (outfielder)
Lee King | |
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Outfielder | |
Born: Hundred, West Virginia | December 26, 1892|
Died: September 16, 1967 Shinnston, West Virginia | (aged 74)|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
September 20, 1916, for the Pittsburgh Pirates | |
Last MLB appearance | |
October 1, 1922, for the New York Giants | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .247 |
Home runs | 15 |
Runs batted in | 144 |
Teams | |
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Career highlights and awards | |
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Edward Lee King (December 26, 1892 in Hundred, West Virginia – September 16, 1967 in Shinnston, West Virginia), was a Major League Baseball outfielder. He played seven seasons in the majors, from 1916-1922, for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, and New York Giants.
King drove in the final run of the 1922 World Series for his victorious team, the Giants. It came in his only at-bat in a World Series game.
He had 294 hits in a seven-year career, with a batting average of .247.
Another outfielder with exactly the same name, Edward Lee King, born two years later, also played Major League Baseball, both men going by their middle names, Lee.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
Categories:
- 1892 births
- 1967 deaths
- Major League Baseball outfielders
- Baseball players from West Virginia
- New York Giants (NL) players
- Pittsburgh Pirates players
- Philadelphia Phillies players
- People from Wetzel County, West Virginia
- People from Shinnston, West Virginia
- Adrian Fencevilles players
- Wheeling Stogies players
- Toledo Mud Hens players
- Portland Beavers players
- Galveston Sand Crabs players
- San Antonio Bears players
- Cumberland Colts players
- Uniontown Cokers players
- Fairmont Black Diamonds players
- American baseball outfielder, 1890s birth stubs