Jim Toy

James Madison Toy (February 20, 1858 – March 13, 1919) was an early American Major League Baseball player, possibly with Native American ancestry, who had a short two-year career with the Cleveland Blues and the Brooklyn Gladiators, both of the American Association.

Career Born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, Toy began his professional baseball career in the International League for the Utica, New York team. He showed his versatility by playing many different positions, as well as having a well known good throwing arm. He helped lead the Utica team to the International League championship in .

This showing earned him a spot on the Cleveland Blues for the season, where he played in 109 games, batted .222, and played mainly at first base, but again showed his ability at other positions, including catcher, and all three outfield positions.

Modern historians have become less worried about whether the player is a "full-blooded" Native American, but rather if the player identified and aligned himself socially and culturally with his native people. Sockalexis fits this view of history, while Toy did not.