Ned Cuthbert
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Edgar Edward Cuthbert (June 20, 1845 – February 6, 1905) was an American professional baseball outfielder.
Career
Cuthbert's baseball career began in 1865 with the Keystone Club of Philadelphia. After two seasons as a
Cuthbert was with a number of teams in the National Association and its successor, the National League, playing in Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.
After game-fixing allegations surfaced as part of the Brown Stockings 1877 season, Brown Stockings ownership officially withdrew from the National League and folded the team. In time for the 1878 season, Cuthbert and four other former players of the Brown Stockings spent the next few years (1878–1881) playing as a reorganized, semi-professional baseball team, filling vacant positions with the best of the St. Louis amateur players. Cuthbert played with the semi-professional Brown Stockings (1878, 1879, and 1881) and the St. Louis Red Stockings (1880). It was Cuthbert who, while working at his saloon during these years, convinced grocery and saloon owner Chris von der Ahe to invest in the Brown Stockings and return them to professional baseball status. Von der Ahe purchased the Brown Stockings in 1880, changed their name to the Browns, and returned them to professional status in 1882.
In 1882, Cuthbert became the player/manager for the St. Louis team of the newly formed
Reportedly, Cuthbert stole the first base in organized baseball in 1865 while playing for the Philadelphia Keystones, simply by waiting for the pitcher to be distracted and running from first to second base. However, according to Peter Morris' "A Game Of Inches", base-stealing was part of baseball well before 1865; the earliest explicit account of stealing a base goes back to 1856.
Cuthbert died of endocarditis in St. Louis, Missouri, and was laid to rest at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
See also
- List of Major League Baseball player-managers
- List of Major League Baseball annual stolen base leaders
References
- ^ "Ned Cuthbert". Baseball Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
External links
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- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Baseball Almanac
- The Dead Ball Era