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The Death of Jim Creighton at 21
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Text | Excelsior star Jim Creighton, 21 years old, suffered some sort of injury during the middle innings of a game against Morrisania on October 14, 1862, and died four days later of a "strangulated intestine" associated with a hernia. (Other accounts cite a ruptured bladder - ouch.) One legend was that Creighton suffered the injury in the process of "hitting out a home run." Excelsior officials attributed the death to a cricket injury incurred in a prior cricket match. Creighton was, perhaps base ball's first superstar. R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, Death at the Ballpark (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64. |
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1862.2 The Death of Jim Creighton at 21"
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