finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1925 left 3 august 1955 goldsboro , north carolina snow hill , north carolina 1924 july 12 .210 0 18 first baseman washington senators batting average home runs runs batted in may 6 24 may 1901 mule shirley
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mule shirley

ernest raeford `` mule '' shirley -lrb- may 24 , 1901 in snow hill , north carolina -- august 4 , 1955 in goldsboro , north carolina -rrb- , was a major league baseball player who played first base from - .
he both batted and threw left-handed .
for the 1924 washington senators he logged 100 regular season at bats .
he appeared in three games of the 1924 world series which the senators won , registering one hit in two at bats , batting in one and scoring once .
shirley attended the university of north carolina at chapel hill from 1921 to 1923 where he was a member of theta chi fraternity .
he was the son of octavius shirley -lrb- march 4 , 1984 -- may 1 , 1967 -rrb- and anna shingleton -lrb- shirley -rrb- -lrb- july 18 , 1882 -- september 30 , 1944 -rrb- .
