Harry Wright
Baseball Player
1835 – 1895
Who was Harry Wright?
William Henry "Harry" Wright was an English-born American professional baseball player, manager, and developer. He assembled, managed, and played center field for baseball's first fully professional team, the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. It was there where he is credited with introducing innovations such as backing up infield plays from the outfield and shifting defensive alignments based on hitters' tendencies. For his contributions as a manager and developer of the game, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1952 by the Veterans Committee. Wright was also the first to make baseball into a business by paying his players up to seven times the pay of the average working man.
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- Born
- Jan 10, 1835
Sheffield - Siblings
- Profession
- Lived in
- Sheffield
- Died
- Oct 3, 1895
Atlantic City
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on July 23, 2013
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