finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1911 left 30 july 1955 toronto , ontario elora , ontario 1911 june 22 .385 0 11 first baseman st. louis browns batting average home runs runs batted in may 27 6 december 1882 dave rowan
 st. louis browns dave rowan left
dave rowan

david rowan -lrb- born david drohan , december 6 , 1882 -- july 30 , 1955 -rrb- was a major league baseball first baseman who played for the st. louis browns in 1911 .
a native of elora , ontario , canada , the 28-year-old rookie stood 5 ' 11 '' and weighed 175 lbs .
rowan spent about a month with st. louis , playing in his first game may 27 and his last on june 22 .
he appeared in 18 games and hit .385 -lrb- 25-for-65 -rrb- with 11 runs batted in and 7 runs scored .
he drew 4 walks which pushed his on-base percentage up to .420 .
at first base he handled 172 out of 182 total chances successfully for a fielding percentage of .945 , which was well below the league average at the time .
rowan 's minor league career spanned ten seasons , from until .
he also managed the minor league peoria distillers in and and the peterborough whitecaps in .
rowan died at the age of 72 in toronto , ontario , canada .
