Al Martin (second baseman)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1847–1915)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Al Martin

|image=

|position=Second Baseman

|bats=Unknown

|throws=Unknown

|birth_date=September 1847

|birth_place=New York

|death_date={{death date and age|1915|3|17|1847|9}}

|death_place=Brooklyn, New York

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 7

|debutyear=1872

|debutteam=Brooklyn Eckfords

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 25

|finalyear=1875

|finalteam=Brooklyn Atlantics

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Games played

|stat1value=17

|stat2label=Runs scored

|stat2value=4

|stat3label=Hits

|stat3value=12

|stat4label=Batting average

|stat4value=.164

|teams=

;  National Association of Base Ball Players

: Union of Morrisania (1866–1868)

;  National Association of Professional BBP

: Brooklyn Eckfords ({{baseball year|1872}})

: Brooklyn Atlantics ({{baseball year|1874}}–{{baseball year|1875}})

}}

Albert DeGroot Martin (1847 – March 17, 1915), was a professional baseball player who played second base and outfield for the 1872 Brooklyn Eckfords and the 1874-1875 Brooklyn Atlantics. He was also known as Albert May.

He was later a bookkeeper. He married Emily Augusta Peverelly on May 26, 1873 at the South Dutch Church in Brooklyn.New South Dutch Church, Consistory Minutes, Elder Minutes, Members, Baptisms, Marriages, 1828-1880. Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989.

He died at his home in Brooklyn, 76 Van Buren Street, in 1915.{{cite news|title=Deaths|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/03/19/104642921.html?pageNumber=11|work=The New York Times|date=March 20, 1915|page=11|language=en}}