Today's Dodger of the Day is shortstop, 3rd baseman and 2nd baseman Monroe Randolph "Dolly" Stark.

Stark was born January 19, 1885 in Ripley, Mississippi and debuted in the major leagues with the Cleveland Naps September 12, 1909. His first game as a member of the Brooklyn Superbas was September 2, 1920. He went 1-for-5 with a double and an RBI in a 3-2 win against the Boston Doves. He would finish the 1910 season with a .165/.225/.194 in 219 plate appearances. Stark only had 17 hits in those plate appearances.

He spent the first of 1911 as the starting shortstop for the Superbas, hitting .253/.343/.297. Stark began a short stint as a pinch hitter on July 30, garnering only 11 at-bats between then and August 22. The next day, he began splitting duties between shortstop, 2nd base and 3rd base. He would do so until the end of the season.

The 1911 season was undoubtedly the best of Stark short major league career. His 25 runs, 57 hits and 20 RBI were both more than his other three seasons combined.

The 1911 Superbas would ultimately finish 64-86, 7th in the NL and 33.5 GB of the pennant-winning Giants. The Giants would lose the World Series to the Philadelphia Athletics in six games.

Stark's stint with the 1912 Superbas ended up being quite short. He slashed .182/.217/.182 over 25 plate appearances. The last of those appearances came as a pinch hitter in a 6-3 against the Giants May 24.

The 1912 Superbas finished 58-95, 7th in the NL and 46 games behind the Giants. The Giants would lose the World Series in eight games to the Boston Red Sox. Game 2 was a tie.

Stark's career went far beyond a 4-year stint in the majors. He spent nearly 18 years bouncing around the minor leagues from 1904-1922. Dolly could never quite find his footing with a team, though; his two years and change with the Superbas were his longest consecutive stint with any team.

His career began with the 1904 Clarksville Grays of the Kentucky-Illinois-Tennessee League. He would next see a professional game in 1906 as a member of the Southern Michigan Association's Tecumseh Indians. He slashed a very clean 243/.243/.243 over 317 PAs in his single season with the team.

1907 saw him on the field with the San Antonio Bronchos. He upped his slugging percentage to .275, but kept his BA and OBP right where they were in 1906, batting .242 for San Antonio.

He played for the Southern League's Little Rock Travelers. His stats cratered across 309 PAs, but at least they matched again! He slashed .201/.201/.201.

Stark had an incredibly, almost unbelievably busy 1909. He returned to the Bronchos for the best minor league season of his career, slashing .277/.277/.360. He also set his career-high in home runs with four (dead-ball era, I guess).

He then coached the Mississippi A&M Aggies (now Mississippi State Bulldogs) to a 22-4 record and a share of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title with Alabama...and then casually makes his major league debut with the Cleveland Naps September 12. He would finish the 1909 season with 67 plate appearances and a .200/.273/.200 slash line.

After his stint with the Superbas, he bounced around the south until the end of his career. He spent 1913 in Sacramento before moving to Memphis for the 1914 season. He hit .268 for the Memphis Chickasaws and garnered 114 total bases.

He kept that pace in 1915 for the Nashville Vols, hitting .277 and getting 177 total bases thanks to an improvement in slugging and a career-high in doubles with 17.

In 1916, Stark would return to both the Bronchos and the Chickasaws for separate campaigns. He did far better for the latter than the former. He hit near the Mendoza line for the Bronchos before bouncing back with a .269 average for the Chickasaws.

Stark would never bat above the Mendoza line again. He hit .212 in multiple seasons for the Little Rock Travelers and Augusta Dollies, but ended his final season with the Okmulgee Drillers with a .208 batting average and just 10 hits.

His life was cut short when he was shot and killed by a Harold Atkins December 1, 1924 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39.