James Patrick Seerey was an American

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 outfielder

Outfielder

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 and right-handed batter in Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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. He played for the Cleveland Indians

Cleveland Indians

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 and the Chicago White Sox

Chicago White Sox

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Seerey started his minor league baseball career in 1941. He hit 31 home run

Home run

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s that season and 33 the next before making his debut with the Indians in 1943. In his 561-game career, he batted

Batting average

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 .224, with 86 homers and 261 runs batted in. Seerey led the league in strikeout

Strikeout

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s four times (1944–46, 1948), and he is one of 15 players in MLB history who hit four home runs in a single game

MLB hitters with four home runs in one game

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, doing so for the White Sox on July 18, 1948.

Pat Seerey died in Jennings, Missouri

Jennings, Missouri

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 at the age of 63.

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