Baseball player
| Live Taylor | |
|---|---|
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| Center fielder | |
| Born: (1851-02-03)February 3, 1851 Belfast, Maine, U.S. | |
| Died: February 19, 1888(1888-02-19) (aged 37) San Francisco, California, U.S. | |
| Batted: UnknownThrew: Unknown | |
| MLB debut | |
| August 21, 1877, for the Hartford Dark Blues | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| July 30, 1884, for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Batting average | .218 |
| Hits | 56 |
| Runs batted in | 8 |
Stats at Baseball Reference  | |
| Teams | |
George Edward "Live" Taylor (February 3, 1851 – February 19, 1888) was an American professional baseball outfielder. Most famous for serving as a substitute with the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first all-professional team, on their west coast road trip in the latter half of that season, he later went on to play three seasons in Major League Baseball. He played in two games in 1877 with the Hartford Dark Blues, 24 games in 1879 with the Troy Trojans, and 41 games in 1884 with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys.
Sources
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Guschov, Stephen (1998). The Red Stockings of Cincinnati. Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland & Co.
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- 1851 births
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- Major League Baseball center fielders
- Hartford Dark Blues players
- Troy Trojans (NL) players
- Pittsburgh Alleghenys (AA) players
- San Francisco Athletics players
- San Francisco (minor league baseball) players
- Baseball players from Maine
- People from Belfast, Maine
- 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis deaths in California
- American baseball outfielder, 1850s birth stubs