Did you know? Batted .467 (7-for-15) in five career World Series games for Brooklyn in 1889 and 1890.
Post-game: Worked as a minor league umpire, was in the saloon business, scouted for Brooklyn, served as a road supervisor in Hamilton County, and worked in a Cincinnati factory ... died on August 21, 1919 at the age of 56 after being badly burned in a factory explosion.
Sources: Baseball-Reference; Ancestry.com; Cincinnati Post, 1/23/1905; Greenville Democrat, 9/20/2005; Scranton Republican, 3/12/1907; Springfield News-Sun, 7/2/1910, 4/7/1911; Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, 8/12/1897.
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