Did you know? Hit the longest home run at Brooklyn's Eastern Park, a solo shot off Cleveland's John Clarkson in the top of the fifth inning, on June 15, 1894.
Post-game: Owned and operated a saloon in Washington, DC, worked as an oyster dealer, and later as a bartender in New York ... died of tuberculosis at age 35 on February 22, 1901.
Sources: Baseball-Reference; Ancestry.com; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 6/16/1894; Kansas City Times, 3/24/1901; New York Evening World, 6/16/1894; Omaha Daily Tribune, 10/8/1898; Washington Evening Times, 2/22/1901.
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