finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1903 right 16 june 1961 taunton , massachusetts fall river , massachusetts 1903 september 28 .320 1 10 second baseman st. louis browns batting average home runs runs batted in september 18 28 october 1879 benny bowcock
 st. louis browns benny bowcock right
benny bowcock

benjamin james bowcock -lrb- october 28 , 1879 -- june 16 , 1961 -rrb- was a major league baseball second baseman .
he started the last fourteen games of the 1903 season for the st. louis browns , who were 65 -- 74 and finished sixth in the american league .
the 23-year-old rookie was a native of fall river , massachusetts .
all fourteen of bowcock 's games were played on the road .
he made his major league debut in a september 18 doubleheader against the philadelphia athletics at columbia park .
his last appearance was on september 28 against the boston americans at huntington avenue grounds .
the browns won 5 and lost 9 while bowcock was in the lineup , and he faced three hall of fame pitchers during that time : chief bender , jack chesbro , and cy young .
during his brief time in the big leagues he showed a strong bat and a weak glove .
he was 16-for-50 -lrb- .320 -rrb- with a slugging percentage of .480 .
he had 1 home run , 10 runs batted in , and 7 runs scored .
at second base he made 7 errors in 61 total chances for a fielding percentage of .885 , far below the league average of .943 .
