Elijah Edward Pinnance (September 22, 1879 – December 12, 1944), nicknamed “Peanuts”, was a Canadian Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1903 season.
Pinnance was the first full-blooded American Indian to play in a regular season game in the majors, which occurred on September 14, 1903. At that time, Pinnance pitched for the Philadelphia Athletics at Washington against the Senators.[1]
He went to Michigan State University.
References
- ^ “”Chief”.(Native Americans and baseball)”. Powers-Beck, Jeffrey. The American Indian Quarterly. September 22, 2001.
External links
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference · Baseball Reference (Minors) · Retrosheet · Baseball Almanac
