Paul Cook (May 5, 1863 - May 25, 1905) 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 played all or part of seven seasons 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 ...

, between 1884 and 1891, for the Philadelphia Quakers,

Louisville Colonels The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association (AA) throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891. They were known as the Louisville Eclipse from 1882 to 1884, and as th ...

, Brooklyn Ward's Wonders, and

St. Louis Browns The St. Louis Browns were a Major League Baseball team that originated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers. A charter member of the American League (AL), the Brewers moved to St. Louis, Missouri, after the 1901 season, where they ...

, primarily as a

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Major League Baseball catchers Philadelphia Quakers players Louisville Colonels players Brooklyn Ward's Wonders players St. Louis Browns (AA) players Muskegon (minor league baseball) players Washington Nationals (minor league) players Toledo Avengers players Lincoln Rustlers players Baseball players from Livingston County, New York 19th-century baseball players 19th-century American sportsmen 1863 births 1905 deaths People from Caledonia, New York {{US-baseball-catcher-1860s-stub