1862.2: Difference between revisions

From Protoball
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Add Year Number)
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1862
|Year Number=2
|Headline=The Death of Jim Creighton at 21
|Headline=The Death of Jim Creighton at 21
|Year=1862
|Salience=1
|Salience=2
|Tags=Hazard,
|Tags=Hazard
|Location=NYC
|Text=<p>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.</p>
|Game=Base Ball,
<p>R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, <u>Death at the Ballpark</u> (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64.</p>
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>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.</p>
<p>Creighton was, perhaps base ball's first superstar.</p>
<p>R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Death at the Ballpark</span> (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=2
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

Revision as of 15:47, 14 November 2012

Chronologies
Scroll.png

Prominent Milestones

Misc BB Firsts
Add a Misc BB First

About the Chronology
Tom Altherr Dedication

Add a Chronology Entry
Open Queries
Open Numbers
Most Aged

The Death of Jim Creighton at 21

Salience Prominent
Tags Hazard
Location NYC
Game Base Ball
Age of Players Adult
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.

Comment Edit with form to add a comment
Query Edit with form to add a query



Comments

<comments voting="Plus" />