Ed Abbaticchio | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Second baseman / Shortstop | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born: Latrobe, Pennsylvania, U.S. | April 15, 1877|||||||||||||||||||||
Died: January 6, 1957 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. | (aged 79)|||||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
September 4, 1897, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||||||||||||||||||||
Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||||||||
September 15, 1910, for the Boston Doves | |||||||||||||||||||||
MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||
Batting average | .254 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Home runs | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 324 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Teams | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward James Abbaticchio (April 15, 1877 – January 6, 1957) was the first Major League Baseball player and first professional football player of Italian ancestry, both chronologically and alphabetically.