Did you know? Nicknamed "Oyster" because he hailed from Maryland ... led the NL in homers with 13 and RBI with 128 in 1890, the loop's first year of competition ... stabbed teammate Tom Daly in leg with a penknife in a prank that went wrong while the catcher was napping between games of a doubleheader, July 4, 1893.
Post-game: Owned and managed a minor league team, worked as a National League umpire for a brief time, owned a Brooklyn cafe, manufactured cigars, and later worked as a New York corporation inspector ... died at age 64 on November 11, 1928.
Sources: Baseball-Reference; Ancestry.com; arslongaartcards.com, accessed 1/22/2023; Atlanta Constitution, 9/29/1912; Brooklyn Eagle, 11/12/1928; Nebraska State Journal, 4/16/1899; David Nemec, The Great Encyclopedia of 19th Century Major League Baseball (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2006).
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