Al Mays

{{Short description|American baseball player (1865–1905)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Al Mays

|image=Al Mays, 1887 N690 Kalamazoo Bats card.jpg

|width=200px

|caption=1887 baseball card of Mays

|position=Pitcher

|birth_date={{birth date|1865|5|17}}

|birth_place=Canal Dover, Ohio

|death_date={{death date and age|1905|5|7|1865|5|17}}

|death_place=Parkersburg, West Virginia

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 10

|debutyear=1885

|debutteam=Louisville Colonels

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 2

|finalyear=1890

|finalteam=Columbus Solons

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=53–89

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=3.91

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=469

|teams=

• Louisville Colonels ({{Baseball year|1885}})
• New York Metropolitans ({{Baseball year|1886}}–{{Baseball year|1887}})
• Brooklyn Bridegrooms ({{Baseball year|1888}})
• Columbus Solons ({{Baseball year|1889}}–{{Baseball year|1890}})

}}

Albert C. Mays (May 17, 1865 – May 7, 1905) was an American baseball pitcher. He played five seasons in Major League Baseball for the Louisville Colonels (1885), New York Metropolitans (1886–1887), Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1888), Columbus Solons (1889–1890), all in the American Association.{{cite web|title=Al Mays|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com|accessdate=September 1, 2022|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maysal01.shtml}} In 1887, he appeared in a career-high 52 games, threw 50 complete games, and led the American Association that year with 34 losses and 232 earned runs allowed. Mays concluded his pitching career in the minor leagues, including stints with Erie (1891, 1893, 1894), Wilkes-Barre (1892), and Peoria (1892).{{cite web|title=Al Mays Minor Leagues|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com|accessdate=September 1, 2022|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mays--001al-}}

Mays was born in 1865 in Canal Dover, Ohio. He died at age 39 in an accidental drowning in 1905 near Blennerhasset Island in the Ohio River.{{cite news|title=Albert Mays Drowned At Blennerhassett Island|newspaper=Sistersville Oil Review|date=May 9, 1905|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108732945/albert-mays/}}