Wyatt Eure Snipes was a Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

 player for the Chicago White Sox

Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...

. Listed at 6'0", 185 lb., Snipes batted left-handed

Left-handed

Left-handedness is the preference for the left hand over the right for everyday activities such as writing. In ancient times it was seen as a sign of the devil, and was abhorred in many cultures...

 and threw right-handed. He was born in Marion, South Carolina

Marion, South Carolina

Marion is a city in Marion County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 7,042 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Marion County...

.

Snipes was a major league player whose career, statistically speaking, was only slightly different than that of Eddie Gaedel

Eddie Gaedel

Edward Carl Gaedel was an American with dwarfism who became famous for participating in a Major League Baseball game....

 or Moonlight Graham

Moonlight Graham

Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham was an American professional baseball player who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P...

. His performance that afternoon at Comiskey Park

Comiskey Park

Comiskey Park was the ballpark in which the Chicago White Sox played from 1910 to 1990. It was built by Charles Comiskey after a design by Zachary Taylor Davis, and was the site of four World Series and more than 6,000 major league games...

 reduced to the bare essentials. On July 15, 1923, he debuted with the Chicago team as a pinch-hitter in a game against the Philadelphia Athletics

Oakland Athletics

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. He went hit-less

Hit (baseball)

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, did not have a fielding chance, and never appeared in a major league game again.

Snipes died in Fayetteville, North Carolina

Fayetteville, North Carolina

Fayetteville is a city located in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of Cumberland County, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army post located northwest of the city....

, at the age of 44.

See also

• 1923 Chicago White Sox season
  1923 Chicago White Sox season
  The Chicago White Sox season was a season in Major League Baseball. The White Sox finished seventh in the American League with a record of 69 wins and 85 losses.- Notable transactions :...
  
  
• Chicago White Sox all-time roster
• Cup of coffee
  Cup of coffee
  A "cup of coffee" is North American sports terminology for a short time spent by a minor league player at the major league level. The idea behind the term is that the player was only in the big leagues long enough to have a cup of coffee before being returned to the minors, or simply to describe a...
  
  

External links

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