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Ralph Capron
baseball player
- June 16, 1889
- September 19, 1980 · Los Angeles
- 91 years
About Ralph Capron
Ralph Capron was a baseball player from United States. Born in 1889, Capron died in 1980 at the age of 91 in Los Angeles.
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|Ralph Earl Capron (June 16, 1889 – September 19, 1980) was an American baseball and football player. He played Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1912 and the Philadelphia Phillies in 1913. He also played football in 1920 for the Chicago Tigers of the American Professional Football Association (later renamed the National Football League).
Capron was born in 1889 in Minneapolis. He played high school football, first at South High School in Minneapolis and later at West High.
In 1911, he played college football at the University of Minnesota.
In March 1912, Capron signed to play professional baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was assigned to the Milwaukee club where he garnered a comparison to Ty Cobb after batting .341 and stealing three bases in his first 10 professional games.
Capron died on September 19, 1980. He was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
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