finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date death_place finaldate image statlabel debutteam name throws caption birth_place debutdate bats position article_title
1905 22 may 1943 1898 .281 2 168 detroit tigers 28 july 1865 churchill , ohio may 6 bobwood1905.jpg batting average home runs runs batted in cincinnati reds bob wood right bob wood , detroit tigers catcher , 1905 thorn hill , ohio may 2 right catcher bob wood -lrb- baseball -rrb-

bob wood -lrb- baseball -rrb-

robert lynn `` bob '' wood -lrb- july 28 , 1865 -- may 22 , 1943 -rrb- was a professional baseball player .
he played all or part of seven seasons in major league baseball , three with the cincinnati reds -lrb- 1898 -- 1900 -rrb- , and two each with the cleveland blues/bronchos -lrb- 1901 -- 1902 -rrb- and detroit tigers -lrb- 1904 -- 1905 -rrb- .
born in thorn hill , ohio , wood did not debut in the major leagues until he was 32 years old .
he played the majority of his major league career -lrb- 290 out of 382 games -rrb- as a catcher .
he hit .314 with a .406 on-base percentage with the reds .
over his entire major league career , he had a .281 batting average and a .339 on-base percentage .
wood died in churchill , ohio at age 77 .
