| Whitey Witt | |
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| Outfielder | |
| Born:(1895-09-28)September 28, 1895 Orange, Massachusetts, U.S. | |
| Died: July 14, 1988(1988-07-14) (aged 92) Salem County, New Jersey, U.S. | |
Batted: Left Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| April 12, 1916, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| August 18, 1926, for the Brooklyn Robins | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Batting average | .287 |
| Home runs | 18 |
| Runs batted in | 300 |
Stats atBaseball Reference  | |
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Lawton Walter "Whitey" Witt (bornLadislaw Waldemar Wittkowski; September 28, 1895 – July 14, 1988) was an American professionalbaseballoutfielder. He played all or part of ten seasons inMajor League Baseball (MLB) with thePhiladelphia Athletics,New York Yankees, andBrooklyn Robins. In his career, he hit .287 (1,195-for-4,171) with 18 home runs and 300 RBI. He was the last surviving person to have played on the 1923 New York Yankees championship team, the first year the Yankees won the World Series.[citation needed]
Witt was well known for having been knocked unconscious by a thrown soda bottle at a game inSportsman's Park in St. Louis in 1922.[citation needed] The Yankees were locked in a tight pennant race with theSt. Louis Browns that year. The person who threw the bottle from the stands was never identified, though the Yankees and Witt came back to win the series (thanks to a key hit by Witt) defeating the Browns by one game for the pennant.
He is distantly related to actressAlicia Witt.
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