George Pinkney

{{Short description|American baseball player (1859–1926)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=George Pinkney

|image=George Pinkney.jpg

|position=Third baseman

|birth_date={{Birth date|1859|1|11}}

|birth_place=Orange Prairie, Peoria, Illinois

|death_date={{death date and age|1926|11|10|1859|1|11}}

|death_place=Peoria, Illinois

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=August 16

|debutyear=1884

|debutteam=Cleveland Blues

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 29

|finalyear=1893

|finalteam=Louisville Colonels

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat2label=Hits

|stat3label=Runs

|stat1value=.263

|stat2value=1,212

|stat3value=874

|teams=

}}

George Burton Pinkney (January 11, 1859 – November 10, 1926) born in Orange Prairie, Peoria, Illinois, was a third baseman for the Cleveland Blues (1884), Brooklyn Grays/Bridegrooms/Grooms(1885–91), St. Louis Browns (1892), and Louisville Colonels (1893).

He helped the Bridegrooms win the 1889 American Association pennant and the 1890 National League pennant.

Pinkney led the American Association in games (141), at bats (597), and walks (70) in 1886.

He led the American Association in games (143), runs (134), times on base (234), and outs (419) in 1888.

In 10 seasons Pinkney played in 1,163 games and had 4,610 at-bats, 874 runs, 1,212 hits, 170 doubles, 56 triples, 21 home runs, 539 RBI, 526 walks, .263 batting average, .345 on-base percentage, .338 slugging percentage, and 1,557 total bases. When he retired, he held Major League Baseball's all-time record for most consecutive games played (577){{Cite news |date=1923-05-02 |title=Everett Scott Plays 1000th Game Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-everett-scott-plays-1000t/155956822/ |access-date=2024-09-25 |work=The Miami News |pages=11 |via=Newspapers.com}} and innings played (5,152). Both records have since been surpassed, the innings played mark standing for 95 years until it was broken by Cal Ripken Jr. He remained the only player to play in more than 500 consecutive games until Fred Luderus played in 533 games.

He died in Peoria, Illinois, at the age of 67 and was interred at Springdale Cemetery.{{Cite book |last=Lee |first=Bill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13EwCgAAQBAJ&dq=Springdale+Cemetery+george+pinkney&pg=PA461 |title=The Baseball Necrology |date=2009-04-30 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-4239-3 |pages=461}}

See also

References

{{reflist}}

Sources

{{Baseballstats|br=p/pinknge01|brm=pinkne001geo}}

  • [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=pinknge01 Baseball Almanac]
  • [http://sabr.org/latest/ripken-s-record-consecutive-innings-played Society for American Baseball Research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115235945/http://sabr.org/latest/ripken-s-record-consecutive-innings-played |date=2016-01-15 }}
  • {{cite book

|title=The Dodgers

|author1=Glenn Stout |author2=Richard A. Johnson |author3=Dick Johnson |year=2004

|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Books

|isbn=0-618-21355-4

|url=https://archive.org/details/dodgers120yearso0000stou

|url-access=registration

|page=[https://archive.org/details/dodgers120yearso0000stou/page/407 407]

|quote=george pinkney baseball.

}}

{{1889 Brooklyn Bridegrooms}}

{{1890 Brooklyn Bridegrooms}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinkney, George}}

Category:1859 births

Category:1926 deaths

Category:Major League Baseball third basemen

Category:19th-century baseball players

Category:19th-century American sportsmen

Category:Baseball players from Peoria County, Illinois

Category:Cleveland Blues (NL) players

Category:Brooklyn Grays players

Category:Brooklyn Grooms players

Category:Brooklyn Bridegrooms players

Category:St. Louis Browns (NL) players

Category:Louisville Colonels players

Category:Peoria Reds players

Category:Atlanta Firecrackers players

Category:Grand Rapids Rippers players