Ed Abbaticchio
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| Second baseman / Shortstop | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: April 15, 1877 Latrobe, Pennsylvania, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Died: January 6, 1957 (aged 79) Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
| September 4, 1897, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||||||||
| September 15, 1910, for the Boston Doves | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .254 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 324 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward James Abbaticchio (April 15, 1877 – January 6, 1957) was the first Major League Baseball player and first professional football player of Italian ancestry, both chronologically and alphabetically.