finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1909 right 25 march 1958 uhrichsville , ohio burslem , england 1901 september 13 .200 1 32 catcher boston doves batting average home runs runs batted in june 8 22 may 1873 al shaw -lrb- catcher -rrb-
 detroit tigers al shaw right
al shaw -lrb- catcher -rrb-

alfred louis shaw -lrb- may 22 , 1873 -- march 25 , 1958 -rrb- , nicknamed `` shoddy , '' was an english-born major league baseball catcher who played four seasons with the detroit tigers -lrb- 1901 -rrb- , boston americans -lrb- 1907 -rrb- , chicago white sox -lrb- 1908 -rrb- , and boston doves -lrb- 1909 -rrb- .
shaw was born in burslem in the english county of staffordshire , and made his major league debut at age 28 with the tigers .
he hit .269 with a .321 on-base percentage in 55 games in 1901 with 20 runs and 23 rbis for the tigers .
shaw did not play again in the major leagues for six years , when he signed with the boston americans in 1907 .
in 76 games for boston , shaw hit only .192 .
his batting average continued to decline in 1908 -lrb- .082 -rrb- and 1909 -lrb- .098 -rrb- , and he played his last major league game for the doves on september 13 , 1909 .
shaw died in uhrichsville , ohio , in 1958 at age 84 .
