Ox Eckhardt | |||||
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 Eckhardt in 1929 | |||||
| Born | Oscar George Eckhardt December 23, 1901 Yorktown, Texas, U.S. | ||||
| Died | April 22, 1951 (aged 49) Yorktown, Texas, U.S. | ||||
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American football career | |||||
| No. 0 | |||||
| Position: | Fullback | ||||
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| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||
| Weight: | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||
| Career information | |||||
| High school: | Stephen F. Austin (Austin, Texas) | ||||
| College: | Texas | ||||
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Baseball career | |||||
| Right fielder | |||||
Batted: Left Threw: Right | |||||
| MLB debut | |||||
| April 16, 1932, for the Boston Braves | |||||
| Last MLB appearance | |||||
| May 15, 1936, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |||||
| MLB statistics | |||||
| Batting average | .192 | ||||
| Home runs | 1 | ||||
| RBI | 7 | ||||
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Oscar George "Ox" Eckhardt (December 23, 1901 – April 22, 1951) was an American professional baseball and football player. He was an outfielder for the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers of Major League Baseball, and a fullback for the New York Giants of the National Football League.
Eckhardt holds the known[A] all-time professional baseball record for batting average, counting both major and minor league stats with .365.
(Ty Cobb holds the major league record, .366, but Cobb's minor league average of .304 lowers his total professional-ball average to .364, second behind Eckhardt. Ike Boone holds the minor league record, .370, but his major league average of .321 also lowers his total professional-ball average to .364 (just behind Cobb if their averages are expanded to further digits). Eckhardt hit .192 in the major leagues, but in just 52 at bats, so his known minor league average of .366 was lowered just one point.)