Walter William Kinney (September 9, 1893 – July 1, 1971) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1918) and

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(1919–20, 1923). Kinney batted and threw left-handed. He was born in

Denison, Texas Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, Grayson County, Texas, United States. It is south of the Texas–Oklahoma border. The population was 22,682 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Denison is part of the Texoma region and is one ...

. In a four-season career, Kinney posted an 11–20 record with 129

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s and a 3.59 earned run average in

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. He was a better than average hitting pitcher, posting a .280 batting average (35-for-125) with 17 runs, 2

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. Kinney died in Escondido, California, at the age of 77.

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