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"Items Taken From the Latest Telegraphic Reports on Subjects of Interest" (base ball bat murder suicide)
| Date | Thursday, April 19, 1888 |
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| Text | "At Akron, Ohio. Last Saturday morning Charles A. Teita, a German merchant tailor, aged 45 years, beat his wife's brains out with a base ball bat and then suicided by drowning in the canal. They had quarrelled about money matters." |
| Source | The Phillipsburg Mail |
| Tags | Bats, Deaths |
| Warning | *Other papers had listed the man's name as "Teitz" and "Teits" |
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| Submitted by | Cody Belles |
A Sad Calamity
| Date | Wednesday, April 24, 1867 |
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| Text | "Mr. Norris Bell, a member of the Bachelor Base-Ball Club, died at an early hour yesterday morning, from the effects of an injury received on Saturday last. Previous to the game of the Athletic and Bachelor Clubs, on Saturday, Mr. Bell was struck on the side of the head with a ball. He played the game though, went home, and in the course of Monday inflammation set in, resulting as before stated. He was a young man, married, and resided at Eighth and Fitzwater streets." |
| Source | The Evening Telegraph |
| Tags | Deaths |
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| Submitted by | Cody Belles |
a baseball made from a rubber railroad car spring
| Date | Thursday, December 27, 1866 |
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| Text | A boy eight years of age, was killed at Hannibal Mo., last week, while witnessing a game of base ball. The Ball, which was made of an India rubber car spring, struck him in the pit of the stomach. |
| Source | Elk Advocate |
| Tags | Deaths |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
a member of the Olympics of Philadelphia killed in a riot
| Date | Friday, June 8, 1877 |
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| Text | Lieut. J. Dorsey Ash, who was unfortunately killed in the Pittsburg riots, was an active and much esteemed member of the Olympic Base Ball Club, of Philadelphia, and a large delegation of that time-honored organization paid the last tribute of respect to their deceased comrade by attending his funeral last Friday a week. St. |
| Source | St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
| Tags | Deaths |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Becker dies
| Date | Friday, February 20, 1880 |
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| Text | An old man named Becker, father of the proprietor of the Base Ball Saloon, on Spring Grove avenue, died suddenly in a chair after breakfast this morning at the age of eighty years. An inquest will be held this evening. |
| Source | The Cincinnati Daily Star |
| Tags | Deaths |
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| Submitted by | Cody Belles |
Boy Killed by a Base Ball
| Date | Tuesday, October 25, 1870 |
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| Text | St. Charles, Oct. 24, - On Saturday, about 4 o'clock, a little son of Colonel John C. Bundy, aged about 7 years, while watching a base ball game on the street, near the residence of Hon. S.S. Jones, his grandfather, was struck by a base ball, in the stomach, and almost instantly killed. After the ball hit him, he rose partly to his feet, and exclaimed. "Oh Charlie!" and fell back. He was picked up by the boy whom he called, and carried back into the house, where Drs. DeWolf, Rumsey, and Crawford did all that medical skill could suggest, but without the slightest success. This sad occurrence has cast great gloom over the whole city. The little fellow was known and loved by nearly every resident of the place. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
| Tags | Deaths |
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| Submitted by | Cody Belles |
Frank Ringo commits suicide
| Date | Saturday, April 13, 1889 |
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| Text | Frank Ringo, the well-known base ball player, died at 9 o’clock Friday morning at his mother’s resident... his second attempt at suicide thus proving successful. Ringo began drinking again a few weeks ago, and he so incapacitated himself for work that he was given his release from the American Base Ball Club of this city [Kansas City]. This worked so on his mind that Thursday he took forty grains of morphine. |
| Source | Philadelphia Evening Item |
| Tags | Deaths |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
George Lipscomb dies
| Date | Thursday, June 24, 1880 |
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| Text | The Durham base ball club of colored boys went to Hillsboro Saturday last to play a game with colored club of that place. George Lipscomb, one of the Durham club, exerted himself on the field and drank freely of red eye. He came home and was attacked Sunday night with something like sunstroke. He was unconscious from the first and remained so up to his death, which occurred Sunday night. The weather is too hot to mix whiskey and base ball. |
| Source | The Farmer and Mechanic |
| Tags | African American, Deaths |
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| Submitted by | Cody Belles |
News Items (Base Ball Kills)
| Date | Wednesday, November 9, 1870 |
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| Text | "Base ball has killed twenty-five persons during the past season." |
| Source | The Juniata Sentinel |
| Tags | Deaths |
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| Comment | Possibly exaggerated or fabricated |
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| Submitted by | Cody Belles |
News of the Week (Charles Teitz base ball bat murder suicide)
| Date | Saturday, April 21, 1888 |
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| Text | In Akron, Ohio, on Saturday, Charles F. Teitz, a merchant tailor, fatally injured his wife with a base ball bat and then committed suicide by drowning himself. |
| Source | The Democratic Advocate |
| Tags | Bats, Deaths |
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| Submitted by | Cody Belles |
Shot His Wife and killed himself
| Date | Friday, November 20, 1891 |
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| Text | St. Louis, Nov. 10 - Ernest Hickman, who in the days of the old Union Association was a well-known baseball player and pitcher for the Baltimore club and later with the Western League, shot his wife in East St. Louis to-day and then committed suicide. Mrs. Hickman is probably fatally wounded. There was a terrible struggle between the husband and wife. The woman was shot in the head, but escaped from the house and entered the house of John Canty next door, where she fell unconscious. From the surroundings it seems that Hickman, after taking his revolver, grappled with his wife and forced her on the bed, shooting her before she could get away from him. |
| Source | The Sun (New York) |
| Tags | Deaths |
| Warning | *Incorrectly lists Hickman as having been with the Baltimore Union Association club, when in reality he was with the Kansas City one. |
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| Submitted by | Cody Belles |
Terrible Tragedy
| Date | Thursday, November 26, 1891 |
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| Text | Terrible Tragedy. A Resident of East St. Louis Mortally Wounds His Wife and Kills Himself. St. Louis, Nov. 19. - Ernest Hickman, aged 35 years, living in East St. Louis, shot and fatally wounded his wife at their residence about noon. The woman ran screaming from the house. When neighbors entered the Hickman residence they found the husband's dead body lying on the bedroom floor. Mrs. Hickman was shot in the head, the ball entering her right eye and lodged near the base of skull. It is believed she cannot recover. Hickman after firing at his wife sent three bullets into his head. No cause is known for the quarrel other than Hickman had been on a protracted spree and the shooting was probably the result of a quarrel. In the days of the Union association Hickman was pitcher of the Baltimore baseball club. During the last year of the Western League he played with clubs in that organization. |
| Source | The Paxton Record |
| Tags | Deaths |
| Warning | *Incorrectly lists Hickman as having been a member of the Baltimore Union Association club, he was really with the Kansas City one. |
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| Submitted by | Cody Belles |