Edmund Joseph Porray (December 5, 1888 – July 13, 1954) was a major league

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. A right-handed pitcher, he had a brief Major League career in which he pitched in 3 games for the Buffalo Buffeds of the

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, compiling a 0–1 record with a 4.35

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in 10 innings pitched. During

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, Porray served overseas as a pianist entertaining the troops. After the war, he toured on the Keith and Orpheum vaudeville circuits. Today, Porray is best remembered for his unusual birthplace, as he is the only Major League Baseball player to have been born at sea. His birth certificate lists "At sea, on the

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" as his birthplace. Porray died at the age of 65 in

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, and is interred at the

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Cemetery in that town.

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