Albert Harrison Clancy was a former Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 player. Clancy, a third baseman

Third baseman

A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run...

, was a right-handed batter who threw with his right arm. He had an official listed weight of 175 pounds.

Clancy appeared in three games with the St. Louis Browns in 1911. He was hitless in five at bat

At bat

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s, reaching base once on a hit by pitch

Hit by pitch

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. Today, he is remembered as the first major league player from New Mexico

New Mexico

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; the second would not follow until Fred Haney

Fred Haney

Fred Girard Haney was an American third baseman, manager, coach and executive in Major League Baseball. As a manager, he won two pennants and a world championship with the Milwaukee Braves and, as an executive, he was the first general manager of the expansion Los Angeles Angels of the American...

made his debut in 1922.

External links

• Clancy's major league statistics at Baseball-Reference.com