finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1927 left 13 january 1978 baltimore , maryland new britain , connecticut 1915 may 21 .230 0 24 outfielder brooklyn robins batting average home runs runs batted in september 8 march 7 , 1894 merwin jacobson
 new york giants merwin jacobson left
merwin jacobson

merwin john william jacobson -lrb- march 7 , 1894 -- january 13 , 1978 -rrb- was a backup outfielder in major league baseball who played for three different teams between and .
listed at , 165 lb. , jacobson batted and threw left-handed .
he was born in new britain , connecticut .
a decent outfielder with a hard throwing arm , jacobson entered the majors in 1915 with the new york giants , playing for them one year before joining the chicago cubs in 1916 .
from 1917 to 1925 he played with the baltimore orioles and jersey city skeeters of the international league .
during the 1920 season , jacobsen led the international league with a batting average of .404 , 235 hits and 161 runs scored .
he returned to the major leagues with the brooklyn robins in 1926 and 1927 .
his most productive season came in 1926 with brooklyn , when he posted a .247 batting average with 23 rbi in a career-high 110 games .
in a four-season career , jacobson hit .230 -lrb- 76-for-331 -rrb- with 47 runs and 24 rbi in 133 games , including nine doubles , two triples , seven stolen bases , and a .309 on-base percentage .
he made 99 outfield appearances at center field -lrb- 55 -rrb- , right -lrb- 42 -rrb- and left -lrb- 2 -rrb- , and posted a collective .973 fielding percentage .
after his time with the robins he never appeared again in the major leagues , but he continued to play minor league baseball until 1933 .
jacobson died in baltimore , maryland at age 83 .
