finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1918 left 14 november 1962 parkersburg , west virginia waverly , west virginia 1908 june 7 .278 27 27 593 173 first baseman boston red sox batting stolen bases average home runs home runs runs batted in september 5 26 october 1888 dick hoblitzel.jpg dick hoblitzel
 cincinnati reds dick hoblitzell left
dick hoblitzel

richard carleton `` dick '' hoblitzell -lrb- october 26 , 1888 in waverly , west virginia -- november 14 , 1962 in parkersburg , west virginia -rrb- played first base in the major leagues from 1908 to 1918 .
he played for the cincinnati reds and boston red sox .
hoblitzell was the national league at-bats leader in 1910 and 1911 and cincinnati 's most valuable player in 1911 .
nicknamed `` doc '' by his teammates , hoblitzell 's baseball career was cut short with his world war i induction into the us army as a dentist in 1918 .
he graduated from the university of pittsburgh .
