Rudy York

Preston Rudolph York (August 17, 1913 - February 5, 1970) was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Detroit Tigers (1934, 1937-45), Boston Red Sox (1946-47), Chicago White Sox (1947) and Philadelphia Athletics (1948). York was born in Ragland, Alabama. He batted and threw right-handed.

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With one-eight Cherokee ancestry and less-than-perfect fielding habilities, York prompted one sportswriter to declare: "He is part Indian and part first baseman".

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