finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1889 unknown 8 november 1929 cincinnati , ohio cincinnati , ohio 1889 october 14 .286 0 2 second baseman kansas city cowboys batting average home runs runs batted in october 10 22 july 1862 red bittmann
 kansas city cowboys red bittman unknown
red bittmann

henry peter `` red '' bittman -lrb- july 22 , 1862 -- november 8 , 1929 -rrb- was a major league baseball second baseman in the 19th century .
in he played in the last four games for the kansas city cowboys of the american association , from october 10 to october 14 .
he was the seventh second baseman the team used during that season .
bittman was an excellent fielder , handling 21 chances without an error .
at the plate he went 4-for-14 -lrb- .286 -rrb- with 2 runs batted in and 2 runs scored , and his team went 2-2 against the cincinnati red stockings and louisville colonels during his short run as a regular .
bittman also occasionally served as an umpire , working a total of ten games -- six of them behind the plate .
his first experience was in cincinnati for the american association , five days before he played in his first game for the cowboys .
then , he umpired nine national league games between and .
