Tom Berry (baseball)

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Tom Berry
Right fielder
Born: (1842-12-31)December 31, 1842
Chester, Pennsylvania
Died: June 6, 1915(1915-06-06) (aged 72)
Chester, Pennsylvania
Batted: Unknown
Threw: Unknown
MLB debut
September 2, 1871, for the Philadelphia Athletics
Last MLB appearance
September 2, 1871, for the Philadelphia Athletics
MLB statistics
Average.250
Home runs0
RBI0
Teams
  National Association of Base Ball Players
Philadelphia Athletics (1867–1870)
  National Association of Professional BBP
Philadelphia Athletics (1871)

Thomas Haney Berry (December 31, 1842 – June 6, 1915) was a professional baseball player who played for the Philadelphia Athletics in one game during the 1871 season. He had one hit in four at-bats in that game.

Berry was a soldier in the Union Army from 1862 to 1865 during the American Civil War.[1] He served in Company B of Sixteenth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A of the Thirty-Seventh Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and Company A of the Nineteenth Regiment. He died in 1915 in his home town of Chester, Pennsylvania of tuberculosis.[2]

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  1. ^ "Those Who Served – Civil War". TheDeadballEra.com. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  2. ^ "Tom Berry Death Certificate" (PDF). thedeadballera.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2018.

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