finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1955 right 21 september 2012 norfolk , virginia scotland neck , north carolina 1953 september 24 .246 6 111 center fielder washington senators batting average home runs rbi april 16 12 may 1930 tom umphlett.jpg tom umphlett
 boston red sox tom umphlett right
tom umphlett

thomas mullen umphlett -lrb- may 12 , 1930 -- september 21 , 2012 -rrb- was a center and right fielder in major league baseball who played from 1953 to 1955 with the boston red sox and washington senators .
the son of daisy mullen umphlett and willie l. umphlett , he was a three-sport athlete -lrb- baseball , basketball , football -rrb- at ahoskie high school , from which he graduated in .
at , 180 pounds , umphlett - a right-hander - was originally signed by the red sox that year , choosing a professional baseball career over football scholarship offers to several universities .
in 1950 with the marion red sox , he hit .319 in 94 games .
he made his big league debut on april 16 , 1953 at the age of 22 and wearing the number 38 .
he hit .283 in his rookie season , displaying a great eye at the plate-he averaged one strikeout every 16.5 at-bats .
he was # 2 in rookie of the year voting in ' 53 .
his career never really amounted to much after his promising rookie season-he 'd end up hitting only .246 with six home runs in 360 career games -lrb- 1,160 at bats -rrb- .
he averaged one strikeout every 10.8 at bats in his career .
never much of a threat on the basepaths , he stole only seven career bases .
he had a .986 career fielding percentage .
he played his final major league game on september 24 , 1955 .
in 1954 , he wore number 4 .
in 1955 , he wore 22 .
according to baseball-reference , the player he is most similar to statistically is art kruger .
he spent three of his seasons with mickey mcdermott -- longer than any other teammate .
he managed the short season-class a auburn twins in 1967 , then moved up to full-season class a with the wisconsin rapids twins -lrb- part of 1968 -rrb- , red springs twins -lrb- all of 1969 -rrb- and the lynchburg twins -lrb- part of 1970 -rrb- .
