Ed Porray

Ed Porray

Infobox MLB retired


name=Ed Porray
position=Pitcher
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=December 5, 1888
deathdate=death date and age|1954|7|13|1888|12|5
debutdate=April 17
debutyear=1914
debutteam=Buffalo Buffeds
finaldate=May 1
finalyear=1914
finalteam=Buffalo Buffeds
stat1label=Record
stat1value=0-1
stat2label=Strikeouts
stat2value=0
stat3label=ERA
stat3value=4.35
teams=
*Buffalo Buffeds (by|1914)
highlights=

Edmund Joseph Porray (December 5, 1888 - July 13, 1954) was a former major league pitcher. A right-handed pitcher who had a brief Major League career in which he pitched in 3 games for the by|1914 Buffalo Buffeds of the Federal League, compiling a 0-1 record with a 4.35 ERA in 10 1/3 innings pitched.cite web|title= Ed Porray's Stats|work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/P/Pporre101.htm | accessdate =2008-03-21]

Today, Porray is best remembered for his unusual birthplace, as he is the only Major League Baseball player to have been born at sea. His birth certificate lists "At sea, on the Atlantic Ocean" as his birthplace.cite web| title = Famous First Foreign Born Baseball Players | work = baseball-almanac.com | url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/firsts/first13.shtml | accessdate = 2008-03-21 ]

Ed died at the age of 65 in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, and is interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in that town.

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