:Jim Park (baseball)

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Jim Park

|image=Jim Park Browns.jpg

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1892|11|10}}

|birth_place=Richmond, Kentucky, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1970|12|17|1892|11|10}}

|death_place=Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 7

|debutyear={{mlby|1915}}

|debutteam=St. Louis Browns

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 11

|finalyear={{mlby|1917}}

|finalteam=St. Louis Browns

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=4–5

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=3.02

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=40

|teams=

St. Louis Browns ({{mlby|1915}}–{{mlby|1917}})

}}

James Park (November 10, 1892 – December 17, 1970) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Browns from {{mlby|1915}} to {{mlby|1917}}. He also played football, basketball, and baseball at the University of Kentucky from 1911 to 1915, and coached basketball there in 1915–16{{cite web|url=http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/1915-16.html|title=Kentucky Schedule (1915-16)|publisher=bigbluehistory.net|access-date=November 7, 2020}} and baseball in 1922.

Park also served as the head football coach at Transylvania University from 1919 to 1921,{{cite web|url=http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/Players/Park_James.html|title=James Park|publisher=bigbluehistory.net|access-date=January 22, 2018}} and he was also a student–coach at Eastern Kentucky University in 1909.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/bluemont1910east#page/90/mode/2up/search/Park|title=Bluemont|publisher=Eastern Kentucky State Normal School|year=1910|access-date=January 22, 2018}}

After his playing and coaching days, Park enjoyed a long and successful career as a lawyer, a career that was interspersed with terms of public office and with service in various capacities in the Republican party. In 1944 he was the Republican candidate for the United States Senate against the incumbent Alben W. Barkley, and, although defeated, he reduced the Democratic majority in Kentucky from approximately 145,000 (in 1940) to about 80,000 in 1944.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/deaths/jim_park_obituary.shtml|title=JIM PARK OBITUARY|publisher=baseball-almanac.com|access-date=November 7, 2020}}