Jack Hoey

{{Short description|American baseball player (1881–1947)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Jack Hoey

|position=Outfielder

|image=

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1881|11|10}}

|birth_place=Watertown, Massachusetts

|death_date={{death date and age|1947|11|14|1881|11|10}}

|death_place=Waterbury, Connecticut

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate= June 27

|debutyear= 1906

|debutteam= Boston Americans

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 7

|finalyear=1908

|finalteam=Boston Red Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.232

|stat2label=Hits

|stat2value=116

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=35

|teams=

}}

John Bernard Hoey (November 10, 1881 – November 14, 1947) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1906 through 1908 for the Boston Americans/Red Sox. Listed at {{height|ft=5|in=9}}, 185 lb., Hoey batted and threw left-handed. A native of Watertown, Massachusetts, he was signed by Boston out of the College of the Holy Cross.

In a three-season career, Hoey was a .232 hitter (116-for-500) with 39 runs and 35 RBI in 146 games, including 10 doubles, five triples and 13 stolen bases. He did not hit a home run. He also made 126 outfield appearances at left field (111), right (11) and center (4), committing 19 error in 218 chances for a collective .913 fielding percentage.

Hoey died in Waterbury, Connecticut at age 66.

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