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English coached the Grand Rapids Chicks of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1952 until 1954 when the league folded. After coaching, he worked for State Farm Insurance until his retirement in 1971. On September 26, 1997, English died at Newark, Ohio, at the age of 91 and is buried in Fredonia Cemetery in Fredonia, Ohio.
Repeated studies have shown that contemporary Major League Baseball players have a greater life expectancy than males in the general U.S. population — about five years more, on average, which is attributed to their superior fitness and healthy lifestyles. The longer the active career, the longer the player lives, on average.
He remained with the team in 1906 as they were renamed the Canton Bulldogs. Smith and Canton played in the " Ohio League ", which was the direct predecessor to the National Football League . Smith played halfback for the Bulldogs in 1906 when a betting scandal involving Canton and their rival, the Massillon Tigers , arose.
September – Matthew Porter, 47, player-manager for the 1884 Kansas City Cowboys of the Union Association. August 31 – Alex Voss , 48, utility for the Nationals and Cowboys in the 1884 season. September 22 – George Davies , 38, pitcher who posted an 18–24 record and a 3.32 ERA for the Spiders, Brewers and Giants from 1891 to 1893.
Altrock was one of the better pitchers in baseball for a brief period from 1904 to 1906 with the Chicago White Sox.He was instrumental in the White Sox World Series championship in 1906, going 20–13 with a 2.06 earned run average in the regular season and 1–1 with a Series-best 1.00 earned run average against the Chicago Cubs.
William Earl Essick (December 18, 1880–October 12, 1951), nicknamed "Vinegar Bill", was an American professional baseball pitcher in the Major Leagues. A native of Illinois, he attended Knox College and Lombard College. Essick pitched for the Cincinnati Reds during the seasons of 1906 and 1907.
The more recent road-rage type violence occurred about 9:20 a.m. after the Athens man pulled into the parking lot of the Biscuit Basket and he honked his horn at a red Ford SUV that was backing ...
1906, for the Cuban X-Giants: Last appearance; 1929, for the Gatewood Browns: Stats at Baseball Reference Managerial record at Baseball Reference Teams; Cuban X-Giants ; Leland Giants (1906–1909, 1911) [1] [2] [3] St. Paul Colored Gophers [4] Chicago Giants (1911–1912) Chicago American Giants (1912–1913) [5] New York Lincoln Giants