finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1912 both 28 june 1959 philadelphia , pennsylvania philadelphia , pennsylvania 1893 may 18 .255 3 283 catcher detroit tigers batting average home runs runs batted in july 20 31 july 1870 joe sugden baseball card.jpg joe sugden -lrb- baseball -rrb-
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joe sugden -lrb- baseball -rrb-

joseph sugden -lrb- july 31 , 1870 -- june 28 , 1959 -rrb- , was a professional baseball player who played catcher in the major leagues from - .
he would play for the pittsburgh pirates , cleveland spiders , st. louis cardinals , chicago white sox , st. louis browns , and detroit tigers , managing a basehit in his final game on may 18 , 1912 , as a member of the coaching staff for the replacement tigers called into service when the team went on strike to protest the suspension of ty cobb .
in his later years , sugden was a scout for the st. louis cardinals , a position he held until his death in 1959 at the age of 88 .
