Cozy Dolan (1900s outfielder)

Cozy Dolan
Right fielder / First baseman / Pitcher
Born: (1873-01-09)January 9, 1873
Athlone, Ireland
Died: March 29, 1907(1907-03-29) (aged 34)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
MLB debut
April 26, 1895, for the Boston Beaneaters
Last MLB appearance
October 5, 1906, for the Boston Beaneaters
MLB statistics
Batting average.269
Hits855
Home runs10
Runs batted in315
Stats at Baseball Reference 
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Patrick Henry "Cozy" Dolan (January 9, 1873 – March 29, 1907) was an Irish professional baseball right fielder, first baseman and pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Beaneaters, Chicago Orphans, Brooklyn Superbas, Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds between 1895 and 1906. Born in Athlone, Ireland, he fell ill during spring training in 1907 and died in Louisville, Kentucky of typhoid fever soon afterwards.[1]

Massachusetts manifest records for the passenger ship Siberia contain an infant Patrick Dolan who arrived in Boston with another Patrick Dolan, likely his father, on June 20, 1874. [2]. USA census records for 1900 show Dolan with the profession "Ball Player," using a stated birth location as "Massachusetts" and age of 24, about three years younger than what Irish birth records reflect. Burial records state his birth as Dec 3, 1872, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [3]. These differences could reflect his family's desire to reduce a social stigma Irish immigrants faced in that era.

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