Dizzy Nutter
{{short description|American baseball player (1893-1958)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
| name = Dizzy Nutter
| position = Center fielder
| bats = Left
| throws = Right
| birth_date = {{birth date|1893|08|27}}
| birth_place = Roseville, Ohio, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1958|07|25|1893|08|27}}
| death_place = Battle Creek, Michigan, US
|debutleague = MLB
| debutdate = September 7
| debutyear = 1919
| debutteam = Boston Braves
|finalleague = MLB
| finaldate = September 26
| finalyear = 1919
| finalteam = Boston Braves
|statleague = MLB
| stat1label = Batting average
| stat1value = .212
| stat2label = Hits
| stat2value = 11
| stat3label = Runs batted in
| stat3value = 3
| teams =
- Boston Braves ({{mlby|1919}})
}}
Everett Clarence "Dizzy" Nutter (August 27, 1893{{spaced ndash}}July 25, 1958) was a professional baseball player. In an eight-year career, Nutter played in one major league season with the Boston Braves in 1919. He was listed as {{convert|5|ft|9|in|cm}} in height and weighed {{convert|160|lb|kg}}.{{cite web |url= https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nuttedi01.shtml |title=Dizzy Nutter Statistics and History |work=baseball-reference.com |year=2011 |access-date=May 27, 2011}}
Biography
=Early life=
Nutter was born Everett Clarence Nutter{{cite book|last=Gammons|first=Peter|title=The 2006 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia|editor=Pete Palmer |editor2=Gary Gillette |editor3=Stuart Shea |publisher=Sterling|year=2006|page=507|isbn=1-4027-3625-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUe37F9gN00C}} on August 27, 1893, in Roseville, Ohio.
=Career=
In 1914, Nutter began his professional baseball career playing for the D-level Charleston Senators of the Ohio State League. During the 1914 season, Nutter recorded a .271 batting average with 108 hits and seven home runs. He continued his minor-league career in 1915 with Charleston before joining the B-level New Haven Murlins in 1916. Nutter played in New Haven for two years before his contract was purchased by the Boston Braves on August 29, 1919. He made his major league debut for the Boston Braves on September 7, 1919, in a game against the New York Giants, playing played center field and recording two hits in four plate appearances.{{cite web |url= http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1919/B09071NY11919.htm |title=Retrosheet Boxscore: New York Giants 2, Boston Braves 1 (1) |work=Retrosheet |access-date=May 29, 2011}}
After playing eighteen games for the Braves during which he batted .212, Nutter returned to New Haven for the remainder of the 1919 season. For the New Haven Weissmen, he led the team in hits, doubles, and triples during the 1919 and 1920 seasons.{{cite web |url= https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/team.cgi?id=99cb8461 |title=1919 New Haven Weissmen Statistics – Minor Leagues |work=baseball-reference.com |access-date=May 29, 2011}}{{cite web |url= https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/team.cgi?id=dc686cf9 |title=1920 New Haven Weissmen Statistics – Minor Leagues |work=baseball-reference.com |access-date=May 29, 2011}} Nutter's last season of professional baseball was in 1922 for New Haven Weissmen.{{cite web |url= https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=nutter001eve |title=Dizzy Nutter Minor League Statistics & History |work=baseball-reference.com |access-date=May 29, 2011}}
=After baseball=
Nutter died on July 25, 1958, in Battle Creek, Michigan, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Roseville, Ohio.
References
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External links
{{Baseballstats |br=n/nuttedi01 |fangraphs=1009664|brm=nutter001eve}}
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Category:Baseball players from Muskingum County, Ohio
Category:Boston Braves players
Category:People from Roseville, Ohio
Category:Zanesville Flood Sufferers players
Category:Charleston Senators players
Category:New Haven Weissmen players
Category:New Haven Murlins players