Jack Ryan (catcher)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1868–1952)}}

{{About|the MLB catcher|other uses|Jack Ryan (disambiguation){{!}}Jack Ryan}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Jack Ryan

|position=Catcher

|image=File:Jack Ryan (catcher).jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1868|11|12}}

|birth_place=Haverhill, Massachusetts, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1952|8|21|1868|11|12}}

|death_place=Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

|debutleague=MLB

|debutdate=September 2

|debutyear=1889

|debutteam=Louisville Colonels

|finalleague=MLB

|finaldate=October 4

|finalyear=1913

|finalteam=Washington Senators

|statleague=MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.217

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=4

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=189

|teams=

• Louisville Colonels (1889–1891)
• Boston Beaneaters (1894–1896)
• Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1898)
• Baltimore Orioles (1899)
• St. Louis Cardinals (1901–1902)
• Washington Senators (1912–1913)

}}

John Bernard Ryan (November 12, 1868 – August 21, 1952) was a Major League Baseball catcher. He played from 1889 to 1913 in the American Association, National League and American League. He is one of only 31 players in baseball history to date to have appeared in Major League games in four decades.

Ryan was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts to Irish immigrants. He played baseball from an early age and began playing professionally by age 18.{{cite web |last1=Clever |first1=Matt |title=Jack Ryan |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/jack-ryan/ |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research |access-date=2 July 2022}}

He was a manager in the minor leagues in 1909–1911, 1922–1923, 1926, and 1928–1929.