Jim Clinton
Major League Baseball player
Died when: 71 years 24 days (852 months)Star Sign: Leo
James Lawrence Clinton (August 10, 1850 – September 3, 1921), nicknamed "Big Jim", was an outfielder in Major League Baseball.He played ten seasons in three major leagues.
He also managed the Brooklyn Eckfords for a short time in 1872, losing all 11 games he managed.Following his playing career, Clinton managed minor league teams in Birmingham, Nashville, and Manchester and worked at a Brooklyn hotel.
In 1896 he earned $10,000 from the sale of four lots in Oakland, California he had purchased with teammate John Farrow during their playing days.
By 1920, Clinton was an inmate of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center.He died there on September 3, 1921.
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