:Jackie Price

{{Short description|American baseball player (1912–1967)}}

{{for|the British Olympic bobsledder|Jackie Price (bobsleigh)}}

{{for|the English politician|Jackie Doyle-Price}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name= Jackie Price

|image=

|image_size=

|caption=

|position=Shortstop

|birth_date={{Birth date|1912|11|13}}

|birth_place=Winborn, Mississippi, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1967|10|2|1912|11|13}}

|death_place=San Francisco, California, U.S.

|bats=Left

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=August 18

|debutyear=1946

|debutteam=Cleveland Indians

|finalleague=MLB

|finaldate=September 20

|finalyear=1946

|finalteam=Cleveland Indians

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.231

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=0

|teams=

• Cleveland Indians ({{mlby|1946}})

}}

John Thomas Reid Price (November 13, 1912 – October 2, 1967) was a Major League Baseball shortstop who played in seven games for the Cleveland Indians during the 1946 Cleveland Indians season.{{cite book|last=Schneider|first=Russ|title=The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia|year=2005|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|isbn=1582618402|page=205}}

He was known for delighting fans with his skills – such as batting while hanging upside-down or throwing three balls to three different players in one movement{{cite book|title=Baseball Anecdotes|year=1989|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0195043960|author=Daniel Okrent & Steve Wulf|page=219}} – and was dubbed "the Clown Prince of Baseball" for his other antics, which also included releasing a pair of five-foot boa constrictors on board a train.{{cite web|last=Ballgame|first=Teddy|title=Remembering Baseball's Clowns|url=http://www.thebaseballzealot.com/uncategorized/remembering-baseballs-clowns|work=The Baseball Zealot website|date=2 April 2009 |access-date=8 March 2013}}{{cite journal|last=Welsh|first=Charles|title=Jackie Price Finding Fewer Places To Show|journal=Park City Daily News|date=11 August 1959|page=10}}{{cite book|last=Barthel|first=Thomas|title=Baseball Barnstorming and Exhibition Games, 1901-1962: A History of Off-Season Major League Play|year=2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786428113|page=148}}

Price briefly teamed up with Max Patkin, another baseball clown; together they were described by Boston Red Sox manager Lou Boudreau as the "funniest show I ever saw".{{cite book|last=Poling|first=Jerry|title=A Summer Up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball|year=2002|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=0299181839|page=[https://archive.org/details/summerupnorthhen0000poli/page/45 45]|url=https://archive.org/details/summerupnorthhen0000poli/page/45}}

On October 2, 1967, Price died by suicide by hanging himself.{{cite web|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/jackie-price/|title=Jackie Price|website=SABR.org|publisher=Society for American Baseball Research|last=Sharp|first=Andrew|access-date=2024-12-05}}