John Kenney (baseball)

John J. Kenney (1844 – August 7, 1893) was an American professional baseball player. He played outfield and second base for the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1872, when that club belatedly joined the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in its second season.

John Kenney
Outfielder/Second baseman
Born: 1844
Brooklyn, New York
Died: August 7, 1893
Brooklyn, New York
Batted: Unknown Threw: Unknown
MLB debut
May 2, 1872, for the Brooklyn Atlantics
Last MLB appearance
May 20, 1872, for the Brooklyn Atlantics
MLB statistics
Games played5
At bats19
Batting average.000
Teams
  National Association of Base Ball Players
Brooklyn Atlantics (1867–1869)
Union of Morrisania (1870)
  National Association of Professional BBP
Brooklyn Atlantics (1872)

Kenney played five games during May of that season; in 19 at bats he did not get a base hit but is credited with one run batted in.

Previously he had been a regular outfielder for the Atlantics in 1867 and a substitute infielder during the next two seasons. In the first professional season, 1869, he played primarily third base in nine of 58 team games on record. Next season he was a regular outfielder and infielder for Union of Morrisania (now in the Bronx), a lesser one of fifteen professional teams in 1870.[1]

References
  1. Wright 148, 191, 245, 303.
  • Wright, Marshall (2000). The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-7864-0779-4.


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