Jack Calvo

{{short description|Cuban baseball player (1894-1965)}}

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

{{family name hatnote|Calvo|González|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Jack Calvo

|position=Outfielder

|image=Jack Calvo.jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1894|6|11|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Havana, Cuba

|death_date={{death date and age|1965|6|15|1894|6|11}}

|death_place=Miami, Florida, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 9

|debutyear=1913

|debutteam=Washington Senators

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 28

|finalyear=1920

|finalteam=Washington Senators

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.161

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=1

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=4

|teams=

• Washington Senators ({{mlby|1913}}, {{mlby|1920}})

| hofcolor= blue

| hoflink= Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame

| hoftype= Cuban

| hofdate= 1948

}}

Jacinto "Jack" Calvo González (June 11, 1894 – June 15, 1965) was born Jacinto Del Calvo in Havana, Cuba. He was an outfielder for the Washington Senators in 1913 and 1920. He played in 34 games, had 56 at bats, 10 runs, 9 hits, 1 triple, 1 home run, 4 RBIs, 3 walks, a .161 batting average, a .203 on-base percentage, a .250 slugging percentage, 67 total bases and 19 sacrifices. He died in Miami, Florida.

Calvo played Negro league baseball with the integrated Long Branch Cubans in 1913 and 1915 but most of his baseball career was in Cuba. He was the younger brother of fellow Negro leaguer Tomás Calvo. Calvo played winter baseball in the Cuban League from 1913 to 1927 and was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1948.Figueredo 2003, pp. 485, 508.