Tommy Corcoran (baseball)

Tommy Corcoran
File:Tommy Corcoran.jpg
Shortstop
Born: (1869-01-04)January 4, 1869 New Haven, Connecticut
Died: Plainfield, Connecticut
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 19, 1890, for the Pittsburgh Burghers
Last MLB appearance
July 10, 1907, for the New York Giants
MLB statistics
Batting average	.256
Hits	2256
Runs batted in	1135
Stolen bases	387
Teams
Pittsburgh Burghers (1890) Philadelphia Athletics (1891) Brooklyn Grooms/Bridegrooms (1892–1896) Cincinnati Reds (1897–1906) New York Giants (1907)

Thomas William Corcoran (January 4, 1869 – June 25, 1960) was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Burghers (1890), Philadelphia Athletics (1891), Brooklyn Grooms/Brooklyn Bridegrooms (1892–1896), Cincinnati Reds (1897–1906) and the New York Giants (1907). The 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Connecticut native occasionally played second base later in his career. He batted and threw right-handed.

Career

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Corcoran gained the nicknames Corky and Tommy the Cork. He was considered a hard-working, supple-handed shortstop.

A mediocre hitter, Corcoran batted .300 in a season just once (1894). He was a barehanded fielder early in his career when gloves were gradually becoming standard equipment, and made the transition to a glove without difficulty. He became adept at going to his right to field ground balls backhanded. Corcoran set a still-standing ML record for shortstops with 14 assists in a nine-inning game. (Lave Cross had 15 assists in a 12-inning game in 1897.) Corcoran finished in the top 10 in the league in at bats seven times.

Over an 18-season career, Corcoran batted .256, with 34 home runs and 1,135 RBIs. He had a total of 387 stolen bases, scored 1,184 runs, and made 2,256 hits in 8,812 career at-bats. He accumulated 2,957 total bases.

After retiring as a player, Corcoran became an umpire; his umpiring included one season in the short-lived third major circuit, the Federal League.

Corcoran had four sons and a daughter. He died at the age of 91 in Plainfield, Connecticut.

See also

• List of Major League Baseball career hits leaders
• List of Major League Baseball career triples leaders
• List of Major League Baseball career runs scored leaders
• List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders
• List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)

• "Tommy Corcoran Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved May 24, 2012.