Pat Crawford (baseball)
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Clifford Rankin "Pat" Crawford, aka "Captain Pat", (born January 28, 1902 in Society Hill, South Carolina) was a major league baseball player. Crawford went to Davidson College. He played baseball for several semi-pro and minor league teams throughout the 1920's including a stint as the left fielder for the 1922 Kinston Highwaymen in Kinston, North Carolina, an idependent or "outlaw league" team not affiliated with the National Association. Crawford got his big break in 1929 when he made it to the majors with the New York Giants, which were still being managed by the hall of famer, John McGraw. He went in and out of the majors through the 1934 season when he found himself playing on the world champion St Louis Cardinals. The last two games of his major league career were World Series games. His teammates on the Gashouse Gang that year included HOFers Frankie Frisch, Leo Durocher, Joe Medwick, Dizzy Dean, and Burleigh Grimes. All told, Pat had a .280 batting average in 318 major league games. He was one of the initial inductees in the Kinston Baseball Hall of Fame on February 11, 1983. He died in Morehead City, North Carolina in 1994, three days shy of his 92d birthday.
