Gid Gardner

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Gid Gardner
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Died: August 1, 1914(1914-08-01) (aged 55)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Batted: Right
Threw: Unknown
MLB debut
August 23, 1879, for the Troy Trojans
Last MLB appearance
May 29, 1888, for the Washington Nationals
MLB statistics
Batting average.233
Home runs4
Runs scored113
Teams

Franklin Washington "Gid" Gardner (May 6, 1859 – August 1, 1914) was a Major League Baseball player during the 19th century. Between 1879 and 1888, Gardner played all or part of seven seasons for eight different teams in three different major leagues. He appeared in 199 games, mostly as an outfielder, but also spent some time as a second baseman and pitcher. He had a career batting average of .233 and a pitching record of 2–12.[1]

Career

Gardner was born in

Cleveland Blues; he made nine starts, going 1–8 with a 2.57 earned run average.[1]

Gardner spent 1881 in the Eastern Championship Association and 1882 in the

Baltimore Orioles.[4] Gardner was mostly an outfielder for Baltimore. Over the rest of the season, he played in 42 games and batted .273.[1]

Gardner started 1884 with the Orioles. He played 41 games for them, batting .214, and then finished the season in the

Tom Brown.[5][6] Gardner had a .175 batting average in his 18 games.[1]

In October 1887, Gardner was traded to the

Philadelphia Quakers, for Cupid Childs and cash.[1] Gardner appeared in one game for Philadelphia, but Childs refused to report to the Nationals, and the trade was nullified.[7] Gardner returned to Washington and played his final major league game on May 29.[1]

In 1889, Gardner played for the

semi-professional team,[8] and by August was with a team based in Norwich, Connecticut.[9] Gardner then ended his professional baseball career the following season with Worcester of the New England League.[3]

After his baseball days were over, Gardner lived in Cambridge and "had no steady employment."[10] He was working as a traveling salesman when, in 1914, he was confined to the Cambridge Hospital for several weeks before dying of an aneurysm of the aorta.[11] According to Gardner's obituary in Sporting Life, from 1878 until about 1890 he "was one of the best ball players in the country."[2] Gardner was buried in Cambridge City Cemetery.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Gid Gardner Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c "'Gid' Gardner Dead". Sporting Life. August 22, 1914. p. 3.
  3. ^ a b c d "Gid Gardner Minor League Statistics & History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
  4. ^ Nemec, David (2004). The Beer and Whisky League. Globe Pequot. p. 50.
  5. ^ James, Bill (2003). The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. Simon and Schuster. p. 117.
  6. ^ Neyer, Rob. "Game's progressive past". sports.espn.go.com. May 13, 2004. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
  7. ^ Cupid Childs - Baseballbiography.com
  8. ^ "Notes and Gossip". The Sporting Life. March 12, 1890. p. 4.
  9. ^ "Norwich Notelets". The Sporting Life. August 30, 1890. p. 8.
  10. ^ Nolan, Jeremiah M. "Cambridge Chaps". Sporting Life. February 27, 1904. p. 10.
  11. ^ "Gid Gardner Death Certificate" Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine. thedeadballera.com. Retrieved September 2, 2011.

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