Davy Jones (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1880
Place of Birth: Cambria, Wisconsin, United States
Date of Death: 30-Mar-1972
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Davy Jones (baseball)
- David Jefferson "Davy" Jones (June 30, 1880 – March 30, 1972), nicknamed "Kangaroo", was an outfielder in Major League Baseball.
- He played fifteen seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers, St.
- Louis Browns, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and Pittsburgh Rebels.
- Jones played with some of the early legends of the game, including Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, Frank Chance, Three Finger Brown, Hugh Duffy and Jesse Burkett.
- Also, he played part of one year with the Chicago White Sox, where several of his teammates would later be implicated in the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
- Jones was immortalized in the classic 1966 baseball book The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter. Davy Jones was mostly a platoon rather than a full-time player who was decent with the bat and swift on his feet.
- He played in the major leagues from 1901 to 1918, compiling a .270 career batting average with over 1,000 hits.
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