1862.2: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
|Tags=Hazard, | |Tags=Hazard, | ||
|Location=NYC | |Location=NYC | ||
|Game=Base Ball, | |Country=US | ||
|State=NY | |||
|City=Brooklyn | |||
|Game=Base Ball, | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |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> | |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>Creighton was, perhaps base ball's first superstar.</p> | ||
<p>R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, <span | <p> </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, <span>Death at the Ballpark</span> (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
}} | }} | ||
Revision as of 12:23, 27 November 2013
 |
| 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 | HazardHazard |
| Location | NYCNYC |
| City/State/Country: | Brooklyn, NY, US |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
| Holiday | |
| Notables | |
| 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.
|
| Sources | R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, Death at the Ballpark (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64. |
| Warning | |
| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Edit with form to add a query |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
| External Number | |
| Submitted by | |
| Submission Note | |
| Has Supplemental Text |
1862.2 The Death of Jim Creighton at 21"
Comments
<comments voting="Plus" />