Did you know? Was the starting first baseman on Boston's first-ever World Series championship team in 1903 ... was the first player to hit a sacrifice fly in World Series competition in the first-ever World Series game on October 1, 1903.
Post-game: Worked briefly as a minor league umpire and later as a night watchman at a metalworks factory in Waterbury, CT .... died of coronary failure at age 63 on August 18, 1932.
Sources: Baseball-Reference; SABR Bio; Ancestry.com; Retrosheet. org; Meriden Daily Journal, 8/19/1932; Washington Post, 5/26/1910; Waterbury Democrat, 8/19/1932.
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