Chauncey DePew Burkam (October 13, 1892 – May 9, 1964) was a

pinch hitter In baseball, a pinch hitter is a substitute batter. Batters can be substituted at any time while the ball is dead (not in active play); the manager may use any player who has not yet entered the game as a substitute. Unlike basketball, American ...

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. He played one game for the St. Louis Browns in 1915 and

struck out In baseball or softball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during a time at bat. It usually means that the batter is out. A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters, and is denot ...

in his only

at bat In baseball, an at bat (AB) or time at bat is a batter's turn batting against a pitcher. An at bat is different from a plate appearance. A batter is credited with a plate appearance regardless of what happens during their turn at bat, but a batt ...

."Chauncey Burkam Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-07.

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1892 births 1964 deaths St. Louis Browns players Baseball players from Michigan People from Benton Harbor, Michigan {{US-baseball-bio-stub