Joe Harris (baseball)

Infobox MLB retired
name=Joe Harris
position=First Baseman


bgcolor1=#1c2841
bgcolor2=#1c2841
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
bats=Both
throws=Right
birthdate=May 20 1891
deathdate=death date and age|1959|12|10|1891|5|20
debutdate= June 9
debutyear= by|1914
debutteam= New York Yankees
finaldate=September 25
finalyear=by|1928
finalteam=Brooklyn Robins
stat1label=Batting average
stat1value=.317
stat2label=Home Runs
stat2value=47
stat3label=Hits
stat3value=963
teams=
*New York Yankees (1914)
*Cleveland Indians (1917, 1919)
*Boston Red Sox (1922-25)
*Washington Senators (1925-26)
*Pittsburgh Pirates (1927-28)
*Brooklyn Robins (1928)
highlights=
* Batted .335 for Boston Red Sox in 1923.
* First player to hit a home run in first appearance in World Series (1924).

Joseph Harris (May 20 1891 – December 10 1959), nicknamed "Moon," was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball. He was born in Coulters, Pennsylvania.

In 1918, he was drafted into the United States Army. He served during World War I and was in a truck accident while serving. He suffered 2 broken legs, 3 broken ribs, and a fractured skull, thus creating the 'lump' under his eye. He did need plastic surgery to help fix his facial injury. In 1919, he was dicharged due to injury from the army and returned to the Cleveland Indians for part of the season. At season's end, he played for an industrial team, which offered him money and a business. Harris played with the team for the 1920 season. Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis promptly banned him from baseball for life for having "played with and against ineligible players in independent games".

Harris later applied for reinstatement; Landis agreed to the reinstatement, in part due to Harris' war service. Harris was the first ballplayer to be reinstated after receiving a lifetime banishment. He died at age 68 in Plum Borough, Pennsylvania.

External links

*baseball-reference|id=h/harrijo03