Did you know? Played in three different major leagues in consecutive seasons ... lost a league-leading 26 games with Buffalo in the Players League in 1890, won 34 games and hurled a league-best five shutouts with Boston of the American Association in 1891, and registered 29 wins with Brooklyn in the National League in 1892 despite missing the first five weeks of the season due to a contract hold out ... his brother-in-law was Jim Whitney, a two-time 30-game winner.
Post-game: Worked as a feed and grain salesman, owned and operated a real estate construction and sales business, and thereafter for the final 15 years of his life worked as a Christian Science practitioner (or healer) ... died of a heart attack at age 59 on April 18, 1926.
Sources: Baseball-Reference; SABR Bio; Boston Globe, 6/2/1896, 6/10/1897, 5/3/1903; Brooklyn Citizen, 5/20/1892; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 3/4/1920; St. Louis Republic, 9/8/1901; St. Paul Globe, 1/4/1898.
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