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{{Short description|American baseball player}}
{{About|Sam Jones (1892–1966)|Sam Jones (1925–1971)|Sam Jones (baseball)}}
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* Pitched a [[no-hitter]] on September 4, 1923
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'''Samuel Pond''' "'''Sad Sam'''" '''Jones''' (July 26, 1892 – July 6, 1966) was an American professional [[Major League Baseballbaseball]] [[pitcher]] who played in [[Major League Baseball]] with the [[Cleveland Indians]], [[Boston Red Sox]], [[New York Yankees]], [[St. Louis Browns]], [[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]] and the [[Chicago White Sox]] between 1914 and 1935. Jones batted and threw right-handed. His sharp breaking curveball also earned him the nickname "Horsewhips Sam".
 
==Career==
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Sad Sam Jones died in [[Barnesville, Ohio]], at the age of 73.
 
==QuotationNickname==
* "Bill McGeehan of the New York Herald-Tribune dubbed him Sad Sam because, to him, Jones looked downcast on the field. Jones told Lawrence Ritter that the reason he looked downcast was because, 'I would always wear my cap down real low over my eyes. And the sportswriters were more used to fellows like Waite Hoyt, who'd always wear their caps way up so they wouldn't miss any pretty girls'." – Ed Walton, at Baseball Library [https://web.archive.org/web/20040604015102/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/J/Jones_Sad_Sam.stm]
 
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[[Category:Major League Baseball right fielders]]
[[Category:Major League Baseball pitchers]]
[[Category:Baseball players from Ohio]]
[[Category:People from Woodsfield, Ohio]]
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[[Category:American expatriate baseball players in Canada]]
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[[Category:Baseball players from Belmont County, Ohio]]
[[Category:American expatriate baseball players in the Dominican Republic]]
[[Category:American expatriate baseball players in Nicaragua]]