Jim Tyng
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 93 years ago |
Date of birth | May 27,1856 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Philadelphia |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Date of died | October 30,1931 |
Died | New York |
New York | |
United States | |
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ID | 1930295 |
Jim Tyng Life story
James Alexander Tyng is known as the first baseball player to wear a catcher's mask while playing for Harvard College in 1877. The team manager, Fred Thayer, received a patent for the mask in 1878.