John Joseph McCarthy (January 7, 1910 – September 13, 1973) was an American professional

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. He played in

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(MLB) for all or parts of 11 seasons for the

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and

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between and . Born in

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, McCarthy threw and batted left-handed, stood tall and weighed . He helped the Giants win the 1937

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pennant as their regular first baseman. His 65

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were third on the team. In the

1937 World Series The 1937 World Series featured the defending champion New York Yankees and the New York Giants in a rematch of the 1936 Series. The Yankees won in five games, for their second championship in a row and their sixth in 15 years (1923, 1927–28, ...

, McCarthy started all five games against the cross-town

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and collected four

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, including a

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, in 19

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( .211). The Yankees won the Series, four games to one. In his 11 MLB seasons, McCarthy played in 542 games and had 1,557 at-bats, 182 runs, 432 hits, 72 doubles, 16 triples, 25 home runs, 209 RBI, 8 stolen bases, 90 walks, .277 batting average, .319 on-base percentage, .392 slugging percentage, 611 total bases and 19 sacrifice hits. Defensively, he recorded a .990

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as a first baseman."Johnny McCarthy Statistics and History"
"baseball-reference.com. Retrieved on 2017-05-12. He died in

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at the age of 63.

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