For Howard Elbert Holmes (with the same nickname), see Ducky Holmes (catcher). For other people with similar name, see James Holmes (disambiguation).
Baseball player
Ducky Holmes
Image from Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
Outfielder
Born:(1869-01-28)January 28, 1869 Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
Died: August 6, 1932(1932-08-06) (aged 63) Truro, Iowa, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 8, 1895, for the Louisville Colonels
Last MLB appearance
September 29, 1905, for the Chicago White Sox
MLB statistics
Batting average
.282
Home runs
17
Runs batted in
375
Stolen bases
236
Teams
Louisville Colonels (1895–1897)
New York Giants (1897)
St. Louis Browns (1898)
Baltimore Orioles (1898–1899)
Detroit Tigers (1901–1902)
Washington Senators (1903)
Chicago White Sox (1903–1905)
James William "Ducky" Holmes (January 28, 1869 – August 6, 1932) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played ten seasons in the National League and American League with the Louisville Colonels (1895–97), New York Giants (1897), St. Louis Browns (1898), Baltimore Orioles (1898–99), Detroit Tigers (1901–02), Washington Senators (1903), and Chicago White Sox (1903–05). His minor league career included stops in Lincoln (1906–07) as player manager, Sioux City as player manager (1908–09), and as manager in Toledo (1910), Mobile (1911), Nebraska City (1912), Sioux City again (1912–13), Butte (1914), Lincoln (1916–17), Sioux City (1918), Beatrice (1922), and Fort Smith (1922). He was the player manager of the Western League Sioux City Packers playing alongside one time White Sox teammate Danny Green.[1] Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Holmes spent his first two seasons with the Colonels and played the next two seasons with four clubs. After a season's absence, he returned to play in the American League's inaugural season in 1901. In 932 career games, Holmes batted .282 with 236 stolen bases and 1,014 hits.
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