finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1925 left 30 august 1964 san diego , california clayton , california 1917 september 24 .265 7 316 third baseman detroit tigers batting average home runs runs batted in april 11 2 december 1889 bob jones -lrb- third baseman -rrb-
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bob jones -lrb- third baseman -rrb-

robert walter `` bob '' jones -lrb- december 2 , 1889 -- august 30 , 1964 -rrb- , nicknamed `` ducky '' , was a major league baseball third baseman who played nine seasons with the detroit tigers from 1917 to 1925 .
born in clayton , california , jones made his major league debut at age 27 on april 11 , 1917 .
a left-handed batter , he threw right-handed .
he played 853 major league games with a .265 batting average , 791 hits and 316 rbi .
as the starting third baseman for the 1921 detroit tigers , jones had his only .300 season , batting .303 for a detroit team loaded with offensive talent -lrb- including hall of fame batting champions ty cobb and harry heilmann -rrb- .
despite hitting .303 , jones was one of the `` weaker '' hitters on a team remembered for its record-setting .316 team batting average , still the highest single season average in american league history .
despite the impressive hitting , the 1921 tigers finished in 6th place , 27 games behind the yankees .
in nine seasons with the tigers , jones played 774 games at 3rd base , with the rest at 2nd base and as a pinch-hitter .
he held the second-best fielding percentage -lrb- .962 -rrb- among starting third basemen in the 1922 season .
jones also had a 3.60 range factor score in 1922 , 0.36 points higher than the league average for 3rd basemen .
on may 7 , 1923 , jones collected nine assists in a single game , which at the time tied him for the american league record for assists in a game by a 3rd baseman .
in 1964 , jones died at age 74 in san diego , california .
