Ned Swindell Porter was an American professional baseball

Baseball

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 player. He was a right-handed pitcher

Pitcher

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 over parts of the 1926 and 1927 seasons with the New York Giants

San Francisco Giants

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. For his career, he did not record a decision and compiled a 2.25 earned run average

Earned run average

In baseball statistics, earned run average is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine...

, with one strikeout

Strikeout

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 in 4 innings pitched.

Porter was born in Apalachicola, Florida

Apalachicola, Florida

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 in 1905. He attended the University of Florida

University of Florida

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 in Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville, Florida

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, where he played for coach James L. White

James L. White (coach)

James Livingston White, Jr. was an American college baseball, basketball and football head coach for three different Southern universities, the University of Virginia, Wake Forest College and the University of Florida, in the 1910s and 1920s...

 and coach Lance Richbourg

Lance Richbourg

Lance Clayton Richbourg was an American college and professional baseball player who was a Major League outfielder for eight season between and...

's Florida Gators baseball

Florida Gators baseball

The Florida Gators baseball team represents the University of Florida in the sport of baseball. The Florida Gators compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association , and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference . They play their home games in Alfred A...

 team from 1924 to 1926.

Porter died in Gainesville, Florida in 1968; he was 62 years old.

See also

• Florida Gators
  Florida Gators
  The Florida Gators are the intercollegiate sports teams that represent the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. The "Lady Gators" is an alternative nickname sometimes used by the Gators women's teams...
  
  
• List of Florida Gators baseball players

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