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{{Short description|American baseball player (1865–1905)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Al Mays
|image=Al Mays, 1887 N690 Kalamazoo Bats card.jpg
|width=200px
|caption=1887 baseball card of Mays
|position=[[Pitcher]]
|birth_date={{birth date|1865|5|17}}
|birth_place=[[Canal Dover, Ohio]]
|death_date={{death date and age|1905|5|7|1865|5|17}}
|death_place=[[Parkersburg, West Virginia]]
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=May 10
|debutyear=1885
|debutteam=Louisville Colonels
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=May 2
|finalyear=1890
|finalteam=Columbus Solons
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Win–loss record (pitching)|Win–loss record]]
|stat1value=53–89
|stat2label=[[Earned run average]]
|stat2value=3.91
|stat3label=[[Strikeout]]s
|stat3value=469
|teams=
*[[Louisville Colonels]] ({{Baseball year|1885}})
*[[New York Metropolitans]] ({{Baseball year|1886}}–{{Baseball year|1887}})
*[[Brooklyn Bridegrooms]] ({{Baseball year|1888}})
*[[Columbus Solons]] ({{Baseball year|1889}}–{{Baseball year|1890}})
}}
'''Albert C. Mays''' (May 17, 1865 – May 7, 1905) was an American [[baseball]] [[pitcher]]. He played five seasons in [[Major League Baseball]] for the [[Louisville Colonels]] (1885), [[New York Metropolitans]] (1886–1887), [[Brooklyn Bridegrooms]] (1888), [[Columbus Solons]] (1889–1890), all in the [[American Association (19th century)|American Association]].<ref name=BR>{{cite web|title=Al Mays|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com|accessdate=September 1, 2022|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maysal01.shtml}}</ref> In 1887, he appeared in a career-high 52 games, threw 50 complete games, and led the American Association that year with 34 losses and 232 earned runs allowed.<ref name=BR/> Mays concluded his pitching career in the minor leagues, including stints with Erie (1891, 1893, 1894), Wilkes-Barre (1892), and Peoria (1892).<ref name=BRM>{{cite web|title=Al Mays Minor Leagues|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com|accessdate=September 1, 2022|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mays--001al-}}</ref>
Mays was  born in 1865 in [[Canal Dover, Ohio]]. He died at age 39 in an accidental drowning in 1905 near [[Blennerhasset Island]] in the [[Ohio River]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Albert Mays Drowned At Blennerhassett Island|newspaper=Sistersville Oil Review|date=May 9, 1905|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108732945/albert-mays/}}</ref>
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[[Category:Major League Baseball pitchers]]
[[Category:Brooklyn Bridegrooms players]]
[[Category:Columbus Solons players]]
[[Category:Louisville Colonels players]]
[[Category:New York Metropolitans players]]
[[Category:Allentown Kelly's Killers players]]
[[Category:Aurora Indians players]]
[[Category:Erie Blackbirds players]]
[[Category:Johnstown Pirates players]]
[[Category:Oil City players]]
[[Category:Peoria Distillers players]]
[[Category:Wilkes-Barre Coal Barons players]]
[[Category:Baseball players from Ohio]]
[[Category:People from Dover, Ohio]]
[[Category:Accidental deaths in West Virginia]]
[[Category:Deaths by drowning in the United States]]
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