Tom York (baseball)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1850–1936)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Tom York

|image=Tom York 1885.jpg

|position=Left fielder

|bats=Left

|throws= Left

|birth_date={{birth date|1850|7|13}}

|birth_place=Brooklyn, New York

|death_date={{death date and age|1936|2|17|1850|7|13}}

|death_place=New York City

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 9

|debutyear=1871

|debutteam=Troy Haymakers

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 20

|finalyear=1885

|finalteam=Baltimore Orioles

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.273

|stat2label=Hits

|stat2value=1,095

|stat3label=Runs

|stat3value=743

|teams=

;  National Association of Base Ball Players

: Powhatan of Brooklyn (1869)

: Troy Haymakers (1870)

;  League Player

: Troy Haymakers ({{baseball year|1871}})

: Baltimore Canaries ({{baseball year|1872}}–{{baseball year|1873}})

: Philadelphia White Stockings ({{baseball year|1874}})

: Hartford Dark Blues ({{baseball year|1875}}–{{baseball year|1877}})

: Providence Grays ({{baseball year|1878}}–{{baseball year|1882}})

: Cleveland Blues ({{baseball year|1883}})

: Baltimore Orioles ({{baseball year|1884}}–{{baseball year|1885}})

}}

Thomas Jefferson York (July 13, 1850 – February 17, 1936) was a professional baseball left fielder. Over the course of York's 15-season career as a professional, which spanned the National Association and Major League Baseball, he racked up 1095 hits in 4005 at bats, for a .273 batting average.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/y/yorkto01.shtml Baseball-Reference player page] Twice, during his playing time with the Providence Grays, he was also manager including the entire first season of the team's existence in 1878.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/yorkto01.shtml Baseball-Reference manager page]

York began his playing career in the amateur National Association of Base Ball Players with the Powhatan club in Brooklyn in 1869. In 1871, he became a member of the Troy Haymakers, one of the founding clubs of the National Association. He was playing for the Hartford Dark Blues when they joined the new National League in 1876.

In 1878, after the Hartfords folded, York joined the Providence Grays as player-manager. That season, he led the National League in total bases, extra-base hits, and triples. He was a member of the National League champion Grays team of 1879, and remained with the team until 1882. In 1883, now a member of the Cleveland Blues he led the league in walks. After one season with the Blues, he was purchased by the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association. He played two seasons for Baltimore to finish out his major league career.

Tom died at the age of 86 in New York City, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, which is in Brooklyn.[http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=yorkto01 Baseball-Almanac player page]