Edward Joseph Cihocki (May 9 1907 November 9 1987) was a professional baseball player. Nicknamed Cy he was a shortstop over parts of two seasons (193233) with the Philadelphia Athletics. For his career he compiled a .143 batting average in 98 at-bats with nine runs batted in. He was born in Wilmington Delaware and died in Newark Delaware at the age of 80. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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