Tom Stankard

Tom Stankard
Shortstop/Third Baseman
Born: (1882-03-20)March 20, 1882
Waltham, Massachusetts
Died: June 13, 1958(1958-06-13) (aged 76)
Waltham, Massachusetts
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
July 2, 1904, for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Last MLB appearance
July 26, 1904, for the Pittsburgh Pirates
MLB statistics
Batting average.000
Home runs0
Runs batted in0
Teams

Thomas Francis Stankard (1882–1958), was an American football and baseball player. He played college football and baseball at College of Holy Cross. In 1903, he compiled a .412 batting average for the Holy Cross baseball team and was selected by Walter Camp as a third-team halfback on his 1903 College Football All-America Team.[1][2] In July 1904, he appeared in two games in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates, compiling no hits in two plate appearances.[3] He also played 11 seasons and more than 1,000 games as a first and second baseman in minor league baseball from 1904 to 1914, including stints with the Springfield Ponies (1906–08, 1913–14), Denver Grizzlies (1909) and Holyoke Papermakers (1912).[4]

  1. ^ "Thomas Stankard Is Famous At College". The Pittsburgh Press. December 11, 1903. p. 1.
  2. ^ "Walter Camp Names All American Team". The Trenton Times. December 10, 1903.
  3. ^ "Tom Stankard". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
  4. ^ "Tom Stankard Minor League Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 7, 2015.