Albert Edgar Wright (November 11, 1912 – November 13, 1998), nicknamed "A-1", was a professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

player. He appeared in four games in

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

for the Boston Braves in the 1933 season, three as a

second baseman In baseball and softball, second baseman, abbreviated 2B, is a fielding position in the Infielder, infield, between Baseball field#Second base, second and Baseball field#First base, first base. The second baseman often possesses quick hands and f ...

and one as a pinch runner. He was born in

San Francisco, California San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

. In his major league career, Wright was a 1.000 hitter (1-for-1). He also had an extensive

minor league baseball Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is a professional baseball organization below Major League Baseball (MLB), constituted of teams affiliated with MLB clubs. It was founded on September 5, 1901, in response to the growing dominance of the National Le ...

career, playing in the Pacific Coast League from 1930 until 1944, retiring in 1946. Wright died in

Oakland, California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

, at the age of 86.

External links

Baseball Almanac
Major League Baseball second basemen Boston Braves players Mission Reds players San Francisco Seals (baseball) players Portland Beavers players Memphis Chickasaws players Oakland Oaks (baseball) players York White Roses players Utica Blue Sox players Bremerton Bluejackets players Baseball players from San Francisco 1912 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-second-baseman-stub