Jimmy Cooney Stats & Facts

Jimmy Cooney came from a baseball family. He was born on August 24, 1894 in Cranston, Rhode Island, and when the census taker came to his house in 1900, his father Jimmy gave his profession as “ball player.” Jimmy the elder was the son of Irish immigrants whose wife Emma had given birth to three boys – Henry, 7 at the time, James, 5, and Frank, 1.

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