Johnny Peacock

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name = Johnny Peacock
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position = Catcher
birthdate = birth date|1910|1|10
deathdate = death date and age|1981|10|17|1910|1|10
bats =Left
throws = Right
debutdate =September 23
debutyear =1937
debutteam =Boston Red Sox
finaldate =September 23
finalyear =1945
finalteam =Brooklyn Dodgers
stat1label = Batting average
stat1value =.262
stat2label =Home runs
stat2value =1
stat3label =Runs batted in
stat3value =194
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*Boston Red Sox (1937-1944)
*Philadelphia Blue Jays/Phillies (1944-1945)
*Brooklyn Dodgers (1945)
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John Gaston Peacock (January 10, 1910 - October 17, 1981) was a part-time catcher in Major League Baseball who played for three different teams between by|1937 and by|1945. Listed at 5' 11", 165 lb., Peacock batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Fremont, North Carolina.

A light-hitting catcher, Peacock was good defensively and knew how to handle his pitching staff. As a hitter, he hit only one home run, although he amassed career totals of 1734 at-bats.

Peacock entered the majors in 1937 with the Boston Red Sox, playing for them through the 1944 midseason before joining the Philadelphia Blue Jays (1944), Philadelphia Phillies (1945) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1945). In his rookie season, he hit a .313 batting average in nine games played. The next eight years he averaged 76.25 games in each season, with a career-high 92 games in 1939. His most productive years came with Boston, when he hit .303 with a career-high 39 RBI in 1938, and .284 with 20 doubles in 1944.

In a nine-season career, Peacock was a .262 hitter with one home run and 194 RBI in 619 games, including 175 runs, 455 hits, 74 doubles, 16 triples, 14 stolen bases, and a .333 on-base percentage. A disciplinated hitter with a great knowledge of the strike zone, he posted a solid 2.51 walk-to-strikeout ratio (183-to-73). In 518 appearances behind the plate, Peacock recorded 1863 outs, 220 assists, 37 double plays, and only 36 errors in 2119 total chances for a .983 fielding percentage.

Peacock died in Wilson, North Carolina, at the age of 71.

ources

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/peacojo01.shtml Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/P/Ppeacj101.htm Retrosheet]