Albert Leonard Jacobson orn ''Albin Leonard Jacobson''(June 5, 1881 – January 31, 1933) was a

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who played for three different teams between and . Listed at , 170 lb., he batted and threw left-handed. Jacobson was born in Timra,

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. He always was a bad luck pitcher either due to injury or playing on a bad baseball team. He entered the majors in 1904 with the Washington Senators, playing for them two years before joining the

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(1906–1997) and

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(1907). Jacobson went 6–23 in his rookie season for the last-place 1904 Senators, despite a 3.55

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and career-best numbers in

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s (75) and

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(. At the end of 1905, he was sent by Washington to the Browns in the same transaction that brought Willie Sudhoff to the Senators. His most productive season came in 1906 with St. Louis, when he went 9–9 with a career-high 2.50 earned run average. A year later, he suffered arm problems and was dealt to Boston in exchange for

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. He had a combined 1–6 mark in only nine appearances and never played a major league game again. In a four-season career, Jacobson posted a 23–46 record with 195 strikeouts and a 3.19 earned run average in 88 games, including 70 starts, 53

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s, one

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, and innings of work. After that, Jacobson played for several

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teams. He enjoyed a good season with the 1911 Kalamazoo Celery Pickers champion team of the

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, when he led the league pitchers with 26 wins and a .743

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. Jacobson died in

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, at the age of 51.

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