Franklin Washington "Gid" Gardner (May 6,1859 –August 1,1914) was a Major League Baseball player during the 19th century. Between 1879 and 1888,Gardner played all or part of seven seasons for eight different teams in three different major leagues. He appeared in 199 games,mostly as an outfielder,but also spent some time as a second baseman and pitcher. He had a career batting average of .233 and a pitching record of 2–12. [1]
Gardner was born in Boston,Massachusetts,in 1859. [1] He played on several amateur baseball teams in Cambridge until 1878. [2] In 1879,he started his professional baseball career with the National Association's Worcester Grays,batting .188 in nine games. He then joined the National League's Troy Trojans and made his major league debut on August 23. He pitched in two games for Troy that year and lost both. The following season,Gardner played for the Cleveland Blues;he made nine starts,going 1–8 with a 2.57 earned run average. [1]
Gardner spent 1881 in the Eastern Championship Association and 1882 in the League Alliance. [3] He started 1883 with the Camden Merritts of the Interstate Association,but the team disbanded in July,and he was acquired by the American Association's Baltimore Orioles. [4] Gardner was mostly an outfielder for Baltimore. Over the rest of the season,he played in 42 games and batted .273. [1]
Gardner started 1884 with the Orioles. He played 41 games for them,batting .214,and then finished the season in the Union Association,batting .255 there. He returned to Baltimore in 1885 and hit .218 while playing mostly at second base. [1] Gardner then went back down to the minors in 1886. He played 56 games for the Southern Association's Charleston Seagulls and batted .262. [3] In 1887,he became captain of the New England League's Boston Blues,where he "reached the height of his fame," [2] and also appeared in 18 games for the National League's Indianapolis Hoosiers. While at Indianapolis,Gardner became part of the first known platoon arrangement in baseball,as he split time with left-handed hitting Tom Brown. [5] [6] Gardner had a .175 batting average in his 18 games. [1]
In October 1887,Gardner was traded to the Washington Nationals. He played one game for Washington before being traded in May 1888,to the Philadelphia Quakers,for Cupid Childs and cash. [1] Gardner appeared in one game for Philadelphia,but Childs refused to report to the Nationals,and the trade was nullified. [7] Gardner returned to Washington and played his final major league game on May 29. [1]
In 1889,Gardner played for the Central Interstate League's Evansville Hoosiers. [3] In early 1890,he signed with the John P. Lovell semi-professional team, [8] and by August was with a team based in Norwich,Connecticut. [9] Gardner then ended his professional baseball career the following season with Worcester of the New England League. [3]
After his baseball days were over,Gardner lived in Cambridge and "had no steady employment." [10] He was working as a traveling salesman when,in 1914,he was confined to the Cambridge Hospital for several weeks before dying of an aneurysm of the aorta. [11] According to Gardner's obituary in Sporting Life ,from 1878 until about 1890 he "was one of the best ball players in the country." [2] Gardner was buried in Cambridge City Cemetery. [1]
Edward Hugh Hanlon,also known as "Foxy Ned",and sometimes referred to as "the Father of Modern Baseball," was an American professional baseball player and manager whose career spanned from 1876 to 1914. He was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996 by the Veterans Committee.
Samuel Luther "Big Sam" Thompson was an American professional baseball player from 1884 to 1898 and with a brief comeback in 1906. At 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m),the Indiana native was one of the larger players of his day and was known for his prominent handlebar mustache. He played as a right fielder in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Wolverines (1885–1888),Philadelphia Phillies (1889–1898) and Detroit Tigers (1906). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
Alonza Benjamin Bumbry is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder who played for the Baltimore Orioles and San Diego Padres from 1972 through 1985. Bumbry was the 1973 American League Rookie of the Year,and went on to be an All-Star and World Series champion. He is an inductee of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. Prior to his major league career,Bumbry served in the US Army during the Vietnam War and was awarded a Bronze Star.
The following are the baseball events of the year 1943 throughout the world.
The following are the baseball events of the year 1889 throughout the world.
The following are the baseball events of the year 1888 throughout the world.
Thomas Tarlton Brown was an Anglo-American center fielder in Major League Baseball. Born in Liverpool,Lancashire,England,son of William Henry Tarlton Brown and Mary Nixon Lewis,he played for 17 seasons,a career in which he batted .265 while scoring 1,524 runs with 1,958 hits. Upon his retirement he served as an umpire,working mostly in the National League in 1898 and 1901–1902.
Lawrence Grant Twitchell was an American professional baseball player from 1886 to 1896. He played nine seasons in Major League Baseball,primarily as an outfielder but occasionally as a pitcher,with seven different major league clubs. His best seasons were spent with the Detroit Wolverines from 1886 to 1888,the Cleveland Spiders in 1889,and the Louisville Colonels from 1893 to 1894.
Elmer Ellsworth "Sy" Sutcliffe,also known as "Cy" or "Old Cy," was an American baseball player. He played eight seasons of Major League Baseball,principally as a catcher but also as a first baseman,outfielder,and shortstop,for seven major league teams. He died at age 30 from Bright's disease,just four months after playing in his final major league game.
John Nelson Kerins was an American Major League Baseball player who appeared mainly at first base but also at catcher and in the outfield. He played for the Indianapolis Hoosiers (1884),Louisville Colonels (1885-1889),Baltimore Orioles (1889) and St. Louis Browns (1890). He was a player-manager for Louisville in 1888 and for St. Louis in 1890,and he umpired American Association games through 1891.
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John Emmett Seery was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the Baltimore Monumentals,Kansas City Cowboys,St. Louis Maroons,Indianapolis Hoosiers,Brooklyn Ward's Wonders,Cincinnati Kelly's Killers,and Louisville Colonels from 1884 to 1892. His first six teams ended their existence in a season in which he played for them. In 916 career Major League games,Seery batted .252 with 893 hits. He was 5 feet,7 inches tall and weighed 145 pounds.
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Walton Hugh Goldsby,also spelled Walten Hugh Goldsby,was a baseball player who played as an outfielder for parts of three seasons in top professional leagues in 1884,1886,and 1888. He was a member of five different teams during these seasons;the St. Louis Browns,Washington Nationals,Richmond Virginians,and Baltimore Orioles of the American Association,and the Washington Nationals of the National League. During his playing days,his listed height was 5'10.5",and his weight as 165 lbs.
William J. Geiss was an American professional baseball player from 1882 to 1894. He played two seasons in Major League Baseball,as a pitcher for the 1882 Baltimore Orioles,and as a second baseman for the 1884 Detroit Wolverines. He appeared in 93 major league games,73 as a second baseman and 13 as a pitcher. He also played 11 seasons of minor league baseball for at least 17 different minor league clubs from 1883 to 1894.
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Ralph Mattis,known also as Matty Mattis,was a professional baseball outfielder whose career spanned seven seasons,one of which was spent in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Pittsburgh Rebels (1914). In his only season in the majors,Mattis batted .247 with 14 runs scored,21 hits,four doubles,one triple,and eight runs batted in (RBIs) in 36 games played. The majority of his career was played in the minor leagues. He played with the Richmond Colts (1911),Newport News Shipbuilders (1912),Roanoke Tigers (1913),Parksley Spuds (1923–24),and Crisfield Crabbers (1925) over his career in the minors. Combined between those teams,Mattis batted .303 with 698 hits in 610 games played. During his career,he stood at 5 feet 11 inches (180 cm) and weighed 172 pounds (78 kg). He batted and threw right-handed. Mattis served as a manager for one season with the Parksley Spuds (1923).