Did you know? Led the league in winning percentage three times and ranks second all-time in that category among pitchers with 200 or more wins ... was a two-time 40-game winner ... an excellent two-way player, who appeared in more career games as a hitter (365) than as a pitcher (340).
Post-game: Managed in the minor leagues and then umpired in the major and minor leagues ... died at age 47 on August 11, 1911 shortly after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Sources: Baseball-Reference; SABR Bio; Brooklyn Eagle, 4/26/1942; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3/8/1886; Washington Evening Star, 8/6/1911.
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