Art Ball
American baseball player (1876ā1915) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Clark Ball[1] (April 1876 ā December 26, 1915) was an American Major League Baseball player from Kentucky. Ball played parts of two seasons in the Majors; one game for the 1894 St. Louis Browns, and 32 games for the 1898 Baltimore Orioles.[2]
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Art Ball | |
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Infielder | |
Born: April 1876 (1876-04) Kentucky, United States | |
Died: December 26, 1915(1915-12-26) (aged 39) Chicago | |
Batted: Unknown Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
August 1, 1894, for the St. Louis Browns | |
Last MLB appearance | |
October 15, 1898, for the Baltimore Orioles | |
MLB statistics | |
Games played | 33 |
Hits | 16 |
Batting average | .190 |
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After his professional baseball career ended after 1913, he moved to Chicago,[3] where he was a nightwatchman.[4] Ball died at the age of 39 in Chicago of liver cirrhosis and peritonitis with pulmonary tuberculosis,[5] and is interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery.[2]