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Dick Harley 
Left fielder Born: September 25, 1872
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDied: March 3, 1952 (aged 79)
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaBatted: Left Threw: Right MLB debut June 2, 1897 for the St. Louis Browns Last MLB appearance September 21, 1903 for the Chicago Cubs Career statistics Batting average .262 Home runs 10 Runs batted in 236 Teams Career highlights and awards - Led the American League in hit by pitches in 1902
Richard Joseph Harley (September 25, 1872 – April 3, 1952) was a professional baseball player. He played all or part of seven seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 until 1903.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Georgetown University,[1] Harley played in 740 games, all but two as an outfielder, including 539 in left field, 106 in right field, and 93 in center field. He had a career batting average of .262 and an on base percentage of .332 with 755 hits, 389 runs scored, 236 RBIs, 106 extra base hits, 229 bases on balls, 139 stolen bases, and 78 times hit by a pitch.[2]
On June 24, 1897, Dick collected six hits in one game, a game played in Pittsburgh.[3] Harley also has the dubious distinction of having been the starting left fielder for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who some consider that team to be the worst team in baseball history.[4] The Spiders went 20–134, scoring 529 runs and allowing 1,252 runs.
Later Dick became a highly respected college baseball coach at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State University, and Villanova University.[5] Dick died at the age of 79 in Philadelphia, where he is interred in Cathedral Cemetery.[2]
References
- ^ "Dick Harley's Stats". baseball-reference.com. http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/harledi01.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
- ^ a b "Dick Harley's Stats". retrosheet.org. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/H/Pharld101.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
- ^ "The Official St. Louis Cardinals Website: History: Feats". stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com. http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/stl/history/rare_feats.jsp. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
- ^ MISFITS! Baseball's Worst Ever Team. ISBN 9781929763009. http://www.pocolpress.com/getReviewDetails.php?bookID=000031&name=Cleveland%20Indians%20Yearbook. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
- ^ "The Ballplayers: Dick Harley". baseballlibrary.com. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Dick_Harley_1872. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- Dick Harley at Find a Grave
Georgetown Hoyas head baseball coaches Unknown (1866) • No team (1867–1869) • Unknown (1870) • No team (1871–1873) • Unknown (1874–1875) • No team (1876) • Unknown (1877–1893) • Horsey (1894) • Unknown (1895–1896) • Joe Kelley (1897) • Unknown (1898) • Philip King (1899) • Jerome Bradley (1900–1901) • Herman M. Suter (1902) • Jerome Bradley (1903) • Charles Moran (1904) • Samuel H. Apperious (1905) • Kid O'Hara (1906–1907) • Hugh Spalding (1908) • Unknown (1909–1910) • James H. Sprigman (1911–1912) • Dick Harley (1913) • Dan Coogan (1914) • John D. O'Reilly (1915–1926) • Ben Egan (1927) • Larry Kopf (1928) • Valen O'Neill (1929) • Red Smith (1930) • John T. Colrick (1931) • Clayton Sheedy (1932–1933) • Ralph P. McCarthy (1933–1936) • Joe Judge (1937–1942) • Joe Gardner (1943) • No team (1944–1945) • Mickey Murtagh (1946) • Joe Judge (1947–1958) • Tommy Nolan (1959–1978) • Ken Kelly (1979–1985) • Larry Geracioti (1986–1993) • Kirk Mason (1994–1999) • Pete Wilk (2000– )
Pittsburgh Panthers head baseball coaches No coach (1907–1916) • Walter Blair (1917) • No team (1918–1920) • Dick Harley (1921–1924) • No team (1925–1938) • Ralph Mitterling (1939–1954) • Bobby Lewis (1955–1990) • Mark Jackson (1991–1997) • Joe Jordano (1998–)
Categories:- Major League Baseball left fielders
- St. Louis Browns (NL) players
- Cleveland Spiders players
- Cincinnati Reds players
- Detroit Tigers players
- Chicago Cubs players
- Millville (minor league baseball) players
- Springfield Ponies players
- Philadelphia Athletics (minor league) players
- Detroit Tigers (Western League) players
- Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players
- Providence Clamdiggers (baseball) players
- Providence Grays (minor league) players
- Trenton Tigers players
- Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
- Minor league baseball managers
- Georgetown Hoyas baseball coaches
- Penn State Nittany Lions baseball coaches
- Pittsburgh Panthers baseball coaches
- 19th-century baseball players
- Baseball players from Pennsylvania
- People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1872 births
- 1952 deaths
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