Ollie Pickering

Ollie Pickering
Pickering in 1921
Center fielder
Born: (1870-04-09)April 9, 1870
Olney, Illinois
Died: January 20, 1952(1952-01-20) (aged 81)
Vincennes, Indiana
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 9, 1896, for the Louisville Colonels
Last MLB appearance
October 8, 1908, for the Washington Senators
MLB statistics
Batting average.271
Home runs9
Runs batted in287
Teams
The recap and box score from the May 21, 1892, game in which Pickering went 7-for-7, all flares, giving rise to the term "Texas Leaguer".
Pickering (top row, far right) in 1893, with his hometown Olney, IL, baseball team.

Oliver Daniel Pickering (April 9, 1870 – January 20, 1952) was an American professional baseball outfielder and manager in a 30-year career that spanned from the 1892 Houston Mudcats to the 1922 Paducah Indians.[1] He played for a number of Major League Baseball teams from 1896 to 1908: the Louisville Colonels, Cleveland Spiders, Cleveland Blues, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns, and Washington Senators.[2]

  1. ^ "Ollie Pickering, Minor League Career". Baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  2. ^ "Ollie Pickering, Major League Career". Baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 27, 2019.