George Joyce (baseball)

George Joyce, at the age of 38-39 (unknown due to lack of birth date, only birth year), played on the Washington Nationals team that played in the National League from 1886 to 1889. He played center field during the only game of his career on August 14, 1886, against the Philadelphia Quakers, and never got up to bat. He was the second oldest player on the team, only behind Joe Start, and was at the time the oldest player to make his debut in the post-1876 major leagues as a position player.

Joyce died on November 9, 1895, in Washington, D.C. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.^[1]

• Nemec, David. The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball: Biographies of 1,084 Players, Owners, Managers and Umpires

• Career statistics from Baseball Reference · Retrosheet  · Baseball Almanac
• SABR article

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