John Dodge (baseball)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1893–1916)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = John Lewis Dodge

| image = j_dodge.jpg

| caption = John Dodge playing for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1913.

| position = Third base

| birth_date = {{birth date |1893|04|27}}

| birth_place = Bolivar, Mississippi

| death_date = {{death date and age|1916|6|19|1893|04|27}}

| death_place = Mobile, Alabama

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutdate = August 29

| debutyear = 1912

| debutteam = Philadelphia Phillies

| finaldate = October 5

| finalyear = 1913

| finalteam = Cincinnati Reds

| statleague = MLB

| stat1label = Batting average

| stat1value = .215

| stat2label = Hits

| stat2value = 90

| stat3label = Runs

| stat3value = 38

| stat4label = Home runs

| stat4value = 4

| stat5label = Runs batted in

| stat5value = 48

| teams =

• Philadelphia Phillies ({{baseball year|1912}}–{{baseball year|1913}})
• Cincinnati Reds ({{baseball year|1913}})}}

John Lewis Dodge (April 27, 1893{{spaced ndash}}June 19, 1916) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball from 1912 until 1913. He made his debut on August 29, 1912, for the Philadelphia Phillies. He was traded to the Cincinnati Reds on June 3, 1913, and played his last game for the Reds on October 5 of that year.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dodgejo01.shtml|title=John Dodge|work=Baseball Reference|publisher=Sports Reference|accessdate=April 24, 2020}} He died in Mobile, Alabama after being hit in the face by a pitch in a minor league baseball game.{{cite book|title=Death at the Ballpark: More Than 2,000 Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball, 1862–2014|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQ_NCgAAQBAJ|last1=Gorman|first1=Robert M.|last2=Weeks|first2=David|edition=2|year=2015|isbn=9780786479320|pages=12–13| publisher=McFarland }}