{{Short description|American baseball player (1857–1893)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Joe Farrell |image=Joe Farrell baseball.jpg |position=Third baseman |birth_date=1857 |birth_place=Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1893|4|17|1857||}} |death_place=Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |bats=Right |throws=Unknown |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=May 1 |debutyear=1882 |debutteam=Detroit Wolverines |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=August 29 |finalyear=1886 |finalteam=Baltimore Orioles |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat1value=.232 |stat2label=RBI |stat2value=132 |stat3label=Home runs |stat3value=5 |teams= *Detroit Wolverines ({{Baseball year|1882}}–{{Baseball year|1884}}) *Baltimore Orioles ({{Baseball year|1886}}) }}
'''Joseph F. Farrell ''' (1857 – April 17, 1893) was an American professional baseball player whose career spanned from 1880 to 1888.
Farrell was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1857. He played four seasons in Major League Baseball, principally as a third baseman, for the Detroit Wolverines of the National League from 1882 to 1884 and for the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association in 1886. In 1883, he led the National League in games played at third base (101) and ranked second among the league's third basemen with 248 assists and third with 13 double plays and a range factor of 3.55.<ref name=BR/>
Across all four of his major league seasons, Farrell appeared in 353 games, 280 as a third baseman and 63 as a second baseman, nine as a shortstop and two as an outfielder. He compiled a .232 career batting average, scored 187 runs, and totaled 63 extra base hits, including 15 triples and five home runs.<ref name=BR>{{cite web|title=Joe Farrell Statistics and History|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=baseball-reference.com|accessdate=June 10, 2014|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/farrejo01.shtml}}</ref> Farrell also played four seasons of minor league baseball.<ref>{{cite web|title=Joe Farrell Minor League Statistics|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=baseball-reference.com|accessdate=June 10, 2014|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=farrel001joe}}</ref>
After a long illness,<ref>{{cite news|title=Another Veteran Gone|newspaper=Sporting Life|page=1|date=April 22, 1893|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1893/VOL_21_NO_04/SL2104001.pdf|access-date=June 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912114119/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1893/VOL_21_NO_04/SL2104001.pdf|archive-date=September 12, 2016|url-status=dead}}("Joe Farrell, the well-known third baseman, died in this city on Tuesday. Farrell played in the Albany, Washington and Detroit clubs. He had been ill for a long time, and the Brooklyns were to have played a game for his benefit next Tuesday.")</ref> Farrell died in Brooklyn on April 17, 1893, at age 36.<ref name=BR/> On April 26, 1893, a baseball game was played at Brooklyn's Eastern Park between the Brooklyn Superbas and an old-timers team to raise money for Farrell's mother. Over 2,000 tickets were sold.<ref>{{cite news|title=Baseball for Charity: Brooklyn Team Tackles Old-Timers at Eastern Park|newspaper=The Evening World|date=April 26, 1893|page=1}}</ref>
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