Charles Henry "Chick" Shorten (1892–1965), born and died in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Playing career

Shorten played eight seasons of Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 with the Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

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 (1915–1917), Detroit Tigers

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 (1919–1921), St. Louis Browns

Baltimore Orioles

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 (1922), and Cincinnati Reds

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 (1924). He played in 527 games, including 352 as an outfielder

Outfielder

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 and the rest as a pinch hitter. Shorten had a career batting average of .275 with 370 hits, 51 doubles, 20 triples, 3 home runs, and 134 RBIs.

Shorten played two games in the 1916 World Series

1916 World Series

In the 1916 World Series, the Boston Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Robins four games to one.Casey Stengel shone on offense for the Robins in the 1916 Series but the Red Sox pitching core ultimately proved too much for the denizens of Flatbush...

 for the Boston Red Sox, and collected 4 hits in 7 at bats for a .571 World Series batting average. He was also caught stealing twice in the 1916 World Series, negating two of his hits.

He hit for a career-high .315 average in 95 games for the Tigers in 1919. In 352 games in the outfield, Shorten had a .985 fielding percentage, 23 points higher than the average outfielder of that time.

External links

• Chick Shorten at Find a Grave
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