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Nathan "Nate" Berkenstock (1831 – February 23, 1900) was the earliest-born professional baseball player, a year older than the next-"oldest" player, Lew Carl, who was born in 1832 and played in one game for the Baltimore Canaries in 1874. Berkenstock played in just one pro league game: the game that decided the first professional baseball championship in the United States, in 1871. He was Jewish.() ==Early baseball career== Exactly when Berkenstock first took up the game of baseball is unknown; the National Association of Base Ball Players, the first organized amateur league, was not founded until 1857, when he was 26. According to Marshall D. Wright's book ''The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870'', Berkenstock debuted with the Athletic Club of Philadelphia (the original team of this name, and not related to the American League team that now plays in Oakland) in 1863, when he was 32. Statistics were very sketchy in the early days of baseball; the only numbers available today are Games Played, Runs Scored and "Hands Lost" (a player was charged with a Hand Lost every time he made an out at bat or on the basepaths). Stats like hits, walks, total bases and runs batted in were still years away from being compiled. Generally speaking, a good player would score more runs than have Hands Lost. Berkenstock played four years with Athletic, from 1863-66: Athletic was among the top teams in the nation in the 1860s, winning an (unofficial) national championship in 1867, the year after Berkenstock retired. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nate Berkenstock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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