Kick Kelly

Kick Kelly
Catcher/Manager/Umpire
Born: (1856-10-31)October 31, 1856
New York City
Died: March 27, 1926(1926-03-27) (aged 69)[1]
Malba, New York
Batted: Unknown
Threw: Unknown
MLB debut
May 1, 1879, for the Syracuse Stars
Last MLB appearance
August 7, 1879, for the Troy Trojans
MLB statistics
Batting average.155
Home runs0
Runs batted in2
Stats at Baseball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Set major league record for games as an umpire
  • Called two no-hitters

John O. "Kick" Kelly (October 31, 1856 – March 27, 1926), also nicknamed "Honest John" and "Diamond John",[2] was an American catcher, manager and umpire in Major League Baseball[1] who went on to become a boxing referee and to run gambling houses in his native New York City. He made a notable impact on the development of umpiring, helping to pioneer the use of multiple umpires in games in the 1880s. By the time he initially retired in 1888, he held the record for most games umpired in the major leagues (587); he returned to work the last two months of the 1897 season.

  1. ^ a b "Kick Kelly's Stats". retrosheet.org. Retrieved March 31, 2008.
  2. ^ "Kick Kelly's Stats". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved March 31, 2008.