Jack Phillips (pitcher)

{{short description|American baseball player (1919-1958)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Jack Phillips

|position=Pitcher

|image=

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1919|5|24|mf=y}}

|birth_place=St. Louis, Missouri

|death_date={{death date and age|1958|6|16|1919|5|24}}

|death_place=St. Louis, Missouri

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 13

|debutyear=1945

|debutteam=New York Giants

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 31

|finalyear=1945

|finalteam=New York Giants

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–0

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=0

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=10.38

|stat4label=Innings pitched

|stat4value=4{{fraction|1|3}}

|teams=

• New York Giants ({{baseball year|1945}})

}}

John Stephen Phillips (May 24, 1919 – June 16, 1958) was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he appeared on the mound in one game in Major League Baseball in {{mlby|1945}}, working 4{{fraction|1|3}} innings in relief for the New York Giants and giving up five runs (all of them earned) on five hits and four bases on balls as the Giants were routed by the St. Louis Cardinals, 14–3.[https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1945/B07131SLN1945.htm Retrosheet box score: 1945-07-13] He also appeared in one other MLB game as a pinch runner on July 31 of that season against the Boston Braves, but failed to score a run.

Phillips was a native of St. Louis whose pro career lasted for seven seasons (1942–48). Listed as {{convert|6|ft|1|in}} tall and {{convert|185|lb}}, he had also spent part of 1945 as a member of the Giants' top farm club, Jersey City of the International League.

He died in St. Louis by accidental electrocution at the age of 39,[http://www.thedeadballera.com/accidents.html List of baseball deaths in accidents at The Dead Ball Era]

ten years after leaving baseball.