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1926 left 14 july 1988 salem county , new jersey orange , massachusetts 1916 august 18 .287 18 302 outfielder brooklyn robins batting average home runs rbi april 12 28 september 1895 whitey whitt.jpg whitey witt
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whitey witt

lawton walter `` whitey '' witt -lrb- born `` ladislaw waldemar wittkowski '' , september 28 , 1895 -- july 14 , 1988 -rrb- was a professional baseball player .
he played all or part of ten seasons in major league baseball for the philadelphia athletics , new york yankees , and brooklyn robins .
in his career , he hit 18 home runs and had 302 rbi .
he was the last surviving person to have played on the 1923 new york yankees team , the first year the yankees won the world series .
witt was well known for having been knocked unconscious by a thrown soda bottle at a game in sportsman 's park in st. louis in 1922 .
the yankees were locked in a tight pennant race with the st. louis browns that year .
the person who threw the bottle from the stands was never identified , though the yankees and witt came back to win the series -lrb- thanks to a key hit by witt -rrb- and beat the browns by one game for the pennant .
