finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1994 both 1 march 2015 conway , arkansas conway , arkansas 1989 august 11 .254 12 68 utility player new york mets batting average home runs runs batted in june 6 18 february 1963 jeff mcknight
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jeff mcknight

jefferson alan mcknight -lrb- february 18 , 1963 -- march 1 , 2015 -rrb- was an american utility man in major league baseball who played for the new york mets and baltimore orioles in part of six seasons from 1989 through 1994 , for the new york mets and baltimore orioles .
mcknight was able to play all positions except center field and pitcher , making the largest number of appearances as a first baseman with 39 .
he was the son of former major league player jim mcknight .
mcknight 's professional career overall spanned sixteen years .
originally drafted by the mets in 1983 , he finished his career in 1998 with the independent newark bears .
he died in 2015 at the age of 52 due to leukemia , a disease he was battling for 10 years .
