Myril Oliver Hoag was a major league baseball

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 outfielder

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 for the New York Yankees

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 and other teams.

Hoag was born in Davis, California

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. He played from April 15, 1931, until September 16, 1945. He batted and threw right-handed.

He had a lifetime batting average

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 of .271 with 28 home run

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s and 401 RBIs. In 1939 he made the American League

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 All-star

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 team with the St. Louis Browns

Baltimore Orioles

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. That year, he batted .295 with 75 RBIs and 202 total bases

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. He came in 31st in the MVP

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 voting, Joe DiMaggio

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 coming in 1st. He was 5th in the league in stolen base

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s in 1942 with the Chicago White Sox

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. He finished his career with 59 stolen bases, an average of 9 a year.

He ended his career with 854 hits

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 in 3147 at bats. In 1934, he collected six hits in one game, and was the last New York Yankee to accomplish this feat until Johnny Damon

Johnny Damon

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 did so against the Kansas City Royals

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 on June 7, 2008. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20080607&content_id=2860977&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy

He died in High Springs, Florida

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