Bid McPhee

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox baseball biography John Alexander "Bid" McPhee (November 1, 1859 – January 3, 1943) was an American 19th-century Major League Baseball second baseman. He played 18 seasons in the majors, from Template:Baseball year until Template:Baseball year, all for the Cincinnati Reds franchise. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Template:Baseball year. Known more for his fielding than his hitting, McPhee was the last second baseman to play without a glove.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Early career

Born in Massena, New York, McPhee broke into professional baseball in Template:Baseball year as a catcher with the Davenport Brown Stockings of the Northwestern League.<ref name=sabr>Baseball Biography Project: Bid McPhee</ref> He played for Davenport for three seasons, shifting to second base during the Template:Baseball year season.<ref name=sabr/> After not playing baseball in 1880, he joined an independent team in Akron, Ohio in Template:Baseball year.<ref name=sabr/> Before the Template:Baseball year season, he signed a contract to play for the Cincinnati Red Stockings, a team in the newly formed American Association.<ref name=br>Bid McPhee Statistics and History at Baseball-Reference</ref>

Major League Baseball career

Making his major league debut on May 2, 1882, the 22-year-old McPhee had a batting average of just .228, but he led the league in several fielding categories, including putouts and fielding percentage.<ref name=br/> With McPhee in the lineup for 78 out of their 80 games, the Red Stockings won the inaugural AA championship. McPhee was the only starting second baseman Cincinnati had for the first 18 seasons of its existence, accompanying the team to the National League in Template:Baseball year, when they became the Cincinnati Reds. In last two seasons of his career, he was the oldest player in the major leagues.<ref name=br/>

Over 18 years, McPhee batted .272, hit 53 home runs, hit 189 triples, scored 1,684 runs, had 1,072 runs batted in, and stole 568 bases (this number however is noted by the fact that statistics for McPhee's first four seasons did not include stolen bases, and from 1886 until 1898, the American Association counted stolen bases if a runner happened to go from first base to third base on a single or advanced a base on an out).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He had ten 100-plus seasons in runs scored and regularly led the league in many defensive categories despite playing without a glove for the first 14 years of his career. Without the benefit of the padding provided by fielding gloves, McPhee toughened his hands by soaking them in salt water.

Shortly after retiring as a player in 1899, McPhee rejoined the Reds as a manager. At the team's helm for 1901 and part of 1902, he posted 79 wins and 124 losses for a .389 winning percentage.

Death and honors

McPhee died in 1943. He was cremated and his ashes were interred in the mausoleum at Cypress View Memorial Gardens in San Diego, California.

McPhee was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Template:Baseball year, more than 100 years after he played in his last major league game. He is the only Hall of Famer to spend significant time in the American Association. He is one of three Baseball Hall of Famers, along with Johnny Bench and Barry Larkin, who played their entire career in Cincinnati. McPhee is also the only Hall of Famer from the 1882 pennant-winning Cincinnati Red Stockings team.

Two years after his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, McPhee was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.

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