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Ben Taylor
	Benjamin Harrison Taylor


	Born: July 1, 1888 in Anderson, SC
	Died: January 24, 1953 - 64 years old in Baltimore, MD
	Bats: L	Throws: L	Ht: 5'11"	Wt: 175

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Links:

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Retrosheet	The Baseball Page	BR Bullpen	SABR BioProject	Yahoo Photos / +baseball	Corbis

Notes:
- Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Player in 2006
- Visit Taylor's Managerial Page
- Buried: Arbutus Cemetery; Arbutus, MD
Relatives: Brother of Steel Arm Johnny Taylor; C. I. Taylor; and Candy Jim Taylor

Comparison

First Basemen			All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WS	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Ben Taylor	1909 - 1924	1B	144.2	113.6	11.5	19.0	-
2	Juli�n Castillo	1903 - 1915	1B	87.6	80.8	6.8	0.0	-
3	Edgar Wesley	1917 - 1924	1B	59.0	52.7	6.2	0.0	-
4	Bill Pettus	1909 - 1921	1B	57.3	49.4	7.8	0.0	-
5	Bill Pierce	1910 - 1924	1B	52.7	42.6	10.1	0.1	-
6	Agust�n Parpetti	1905 - 1923	1B	52.5	42.0	9.0	1.5	-
7	Leroy Grant	1911 - 1924	1B	51.0	42.3	8.7	0.0	-
8	Tullie McAdoo	1909 - 1924	1B	22.8	17.1	5.7	0.0	-
9	Chance Cummings	1916 - 1924	1B	9.1	6.9	2.2	0.0	-
10	Eddie Douglass	1918 - 1924	1B	8.2	6.9	1.3	0.0	-
11	Desiderio Hern�ndez	1908 - 1917	1B	4.0	2.4	1.6	0.0	-
12	Bruce Hocker	1913 - 1920	1B	3.8	3.2	0.6	0.0	-
13	Jos� Rodr�guez	1915 - 1917	1B	2.9	2.0	0.9	0.0	-
14	Cooper	1913 - 1921	1B	2.2	1.1	0.3	0.7	-
15	Mario Perram�n	1912 - 1917	1B	1.2	1.1	0.1	0.0	-
16	Henry Ward	1908 - 1915	1B	0.7	0.6	0.1	0.0	-
17	H. Espinal	1916 - 1916	1B	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.0	-
18	Hilario Manzano	1918 - 1918	1B	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	-
19	F. Casta�eda	1916 - 1916	1B	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	-
20	Breibeck	1917 - 1917	1B	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	-
21	George Mayo	1917 - 1917	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
22	L. P�rez	1916 - 1916	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
23	P. Mart�nez	1916 - 1916	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
24	Ram�n Rodr�guez	1916 - 1916	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
25	Adolfo Font	1915 - 1915	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
26	Shields	1916 - 1916	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
27	Rigsby	1917 - 1917	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
28	Roy Morse	1917 - 1917	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
29	Johnny Carr	1918 - 1920	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
30	Andr�s Villavicencio	1916 - 1916	1B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-

	Ben Taylor	1909 - 1924	1B	144.2	113.6	11.5	19.0	-