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Jack Dunn

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Full Name: John Joseph Dunn Primary Position: P,3B,SS,OF
Height/Weight: 5' 9"/0 First Game: May 6, 1897
Birthdate: October 6, 1872 Final Game: October 4, 1904
Birthplace: Meadville, Pennsylvania MLB Experience: 8 years
Died: October 22, 1928
Deathplace: Towson, Maryland
Bat/Throw: Right/Right
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Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Statistics
    • 2.1 Pitching Stats
    • 2.2 Fielding Stats
    • 2.3 Batting Stats
  • 3 Transactions
  • 4 Trivia
  • 5 Video Gallery
  • 6 Picture Gallery
  • 7 See Also
  • 8 Categories

[edit] Biography

John Joseph Dunn (October 6, 1872 - October 22, 1928) was an American journeyman pitcher in Major League Baseball at the turn of the 20th century who later went on to become a minor league baseball club owner, discovering two future Hall of Famers.

Dunn was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Little is known of his youth, but in 1896 he played for Toronto in the Eastern League and the following year he reached the major leagues as a pitcher for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. He bounced around the majors for seven years, having one good season with the Bridegrooms in 1899 with a 23-13 record. After 1904, he pitched and managed in the minors for a few seasons before moving into the business side of baseball.

In 1907, Dunn took over as manager of the Baltimore Orioles, a minor league club with no connection to the current major-league team by that name. He bought the team a year later and developed a minor-league powerhouse by scouting and developing his own players.

Dunn first achieved renown in 1914, when his Orioles were running away with the league pennant but losing money at the box office because of a rival Federal League team in town purporting to be a major-league club. To make his payroll, Dunn had to move the team to Richmond, Virginia and sell off his star player, Babe Ruth, and 11 other players to the majors.

The team moved back to Baltimore in 1916 and Dunn again put together a juggernaut, ultimately signing 10 more players who went on to have solid major-league careers. The best of these was pitcher Lefty Grove, a future Hall of Famer who went 109-36 as an Oriole between 1920 and 1924. By that time, Dunn's team was in the midst of winning seven straight International League championships, many by huge margins.

Dunn's team was regarded as the equal of many major league teams, and he kept them so by refusing to trade or sell players to the majors. It wasn't until the 1925 off-season, when the other, struggling teams in the league made an agreement with the majors on a set price for transferring players, that Dunn finally relented and began selling his stars for money. His team won one more league title in 1925 and then dropped back into the pack.

Dunn was responsible for Ruth's famous nickname, calling him "my $10,000 Babe" for the price he drew, and in addition to Grove, discovered other quality major-leaguers such as Jack Bentley, Ernie Shore, George Earnshaw, Dick Porter and Tommy Thomas.

Dunn continued to run the Orioles until his death from a heart attack at age 56.

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[edit] Pitching Stats

Year Team G GS W L ERA K R ER CG SHO SV IP H HR BB IB WP HBP
1897 BRO N 25 21 14 9 4.57 26 147 110 21 0 0 216.2 251 6 66 0 2 9
1898 BRO N 41 37 16 21 3.60 66 180 129 31 0 0 322.2 352 10 82 0 7 15
1899 BRO N 41 34 23 13 3.70 48 161 123 29 2 2 299.1 323 8 86 0 0 18
1900 PHI N 10 9 5 5 4.84 12 50 43 9 1 0 80 87 2 29 0 2 5
1900 BRO N 10 7 3 4 5.57 6 48 39 5 0 0 63 88 1 28 0 3 4
1900 TOT N 20 16 8 9 5.16 18 98 82 14 1 0 143 175 3 57 0 5 9
1901 PHI N 2 2 0 1 21.21 1 16 11 0 0 0 4.2 11 0 7 0 1 2
1901 BAL A 9 6 3 3 3.62 5 45 24 6 0 0 59.2 74 2 21 0 0 1
1901 Total 11 8 3 4 4.90 6 61 35 6 0 0 64.1 85 2 28 0 1 3
1902 NY N 3 2 0 3 3.71 6 14 11 2 0 0 26.2 28 0 12 0 0 0
1904 NY N 1 0 0 0 4.50 1 3 2 0 0 1 4 3 1 3 0 0 0
Total NL 133 112 61 56 4.14 166 619 468 97 3 3 1017 1143 28 313 0 15 53
Total AL 9 6 3 3 3.62 5 45 24 6 0 0 59.2 74 2 21 0 0 1
Total 142 118 64 59 4.11 171 664 492 103 3 3 1076.2 1217 30 334 0 15 54

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year Team POS G GS INN PO A ERR DP TP PB SB CS PkO AVG
1897 BRO N P 25 0 0 17 55 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 .911
1897 BRO N OF 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1897 BRO N 2B 4 0 0 7 9 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .889
1897 BRO N SS 1 0 0 3 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .700
1897 BRO N 3B 3 0 0 2 6 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .800
1898 BRO N SS 4 0 0 11 15 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 .867
1898 BRO N OF 4 0 0 8 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1898 BRO N P 41 0 0 22 70 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 .939
1898 BRO N 3B 2 0 0 1 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .714
1899 BRO N P 41 0 0 21 83 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 .963
1899 BRO N SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
1900 PHI N P 10 0 0 5 18 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .920
1900 BRO N P 10 0 0 2 22 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .960
1900 TOT N P 20 0 0 7 40 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .940
1901 PHI N P 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1901 BAL A SS 19 0 0 52 50 17 7 0 0 0 0 0 .857
1901 BAL A 2B 1 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1901 BAL A P 9 0 0 4 20 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .923
1901 BAL A 3B 67 0 0 98 133 34 6 0 0 0 0 0 .872
1901 BAL A OF 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1901 Total P 11 0 0 4 21 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .926
1902 NY N 3B 18 0 0 27 27 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 .915
1902 NY N OF 43 0 0 47 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 .962
1902 NY N P 3 0 0 4 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .929
1902 NY N SS 36 0 0 74 109 15 13 0 0 0 0 0 .924
1902 NY N 2B 2 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1903 NY N 2B 19 0 0 28 46 8 5 0 0 0 0 0 .902
1903 NY N SS 27 0 0 47 80 13 18 0 0 0 0 0 .907
1903 NY N OF 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1903 NY N 3B 25 0 0 25 47 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 .935
1904 NY N SS 10 0 0 21 24 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 .918
1904 NY N P 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1904 NY N 2B 9 0 0 7 16 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 .852
1904 NY N 3B 28 0 0 25 49 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 .914
1904 NY N OF 7 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
Total OF 59 0 0 65 6 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 .973
Total 2B 35 0 0 46 78 14 5 0 0 0 0 0 .899
Total P 142 0 0 77 278 23 6 0 0 0 0 0 .939
Total 3B 143 0 0 178 266 55 18 0 0 0 0 0 .890
Total SS 98 0 0 208 282 56 39 0 0 0 0 0 .897

[edit] Batting Stats

Year Team G AB R H HR RBI AVG OBP SLG 2B 3B BB SO HBP SH SB IBB GDP
1897 BRO N 36 131 20 29 0 17 .221 .244 .252 4 0 4 0 0 4 2 0 0
1898 BRO N 51 167 21 41 0 19 .246 .280 .257 0 1 7 0 1 1 3 0 0
1899 BRO N 43 122 21 30 0 16 .246 .270 .279 2 1 3 0 1 2 3 0 0
1900 PHI N 10 33 3 10 0 5 .303 .303 .333 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
1900 BRO N 10 26 2 6 0 1 .231 .259 .231 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1900 TOT N 20 59 5 16 0 6 .271 .283 .288 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
1901 PHI N 2 1 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1901 BAL A 96 362 41 90 0 36 .249 .301 .296 9 4 21 0 6 14 10 0 0
1901 Total 98 363 42 91 0 36 .251 .304 .298 9 4 22 0 6 14 10 0 0
1902 NY N 100 342 26 72 0 14 .211 .256 .249 11 1 20 0 1 19 13 0 0
1903 NY N 78 257 35 62 0 37 .241 .291 .307 15 1 15 0 3 8 12 0 0
1904 NY N 64 181 27 56 1 19 .309 .356 .414 12 2 11 0 2 5 11 0 0
Total NL 394 1260 156 307 1 128 .244 .283 .291 45 6 62 0 8 39 45 0 0
Total AL 96 362 41 90 0 36 .249 .301 .296 9 4 21 0 6 14 10 0 0
Total 490 1622 197 397 1 164 .245 .287 .292 54 10 83 0 14 53 55 0 0

[edit] Transactions

  • Released by Philadelphia Phillies (April 30, 1901).
  • Signed by Baltimore Orioles (May 14, 1901).

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