Sam Crane (second baseman)

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Sam Crane
New York Giants
MLB statistics
Batting average.203
Home runs0
Runs batted in35
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As Manager

Samuel Newhall Crane (January 2, 1854 – June 26, 1925) was an American

Buffalo Bisons of the National League and the 1884 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of the short-lived Union Association.[2]

Career

His career ended when he was arrested after having an affair with the wife of a fruit dealer and stealing $1,500 from the husband.

New York Giants, Andrew Freedman. Freedman, upon learning of existence of the article, barred Sam from entering the Polo Grounds. When Crane showed up for the August 16 game, he learned that his season pass was taken and his efforts to purchase a ticket were foiled.[4]

It was his connection to baseball as a player, manager, and sportswriter that lent credibility to his assertion that Cooperstown, New York be the location for a "memorial" to the great players from the past. Cooperstown was, at the time, the place that many people believed where Abner Doubleday had invented the game of baseball. It was this idea of a memorial that eventually led to the creation of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1939.[5]

Crane died at the age of 71 of pneumonia[6] in New York City, and is interred at the Lutheran All Faith Cemetery in Middle Village, New York.[7]

See also

  • List of Major League Baseball player–managers

References

  1. ^ Baseball-Reference player page
  2. ^ Baseball-Reference manager page
  3. ISBN 978-0-8108-5858-9
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  4. ^ SABR Project Biography: Harvey Watkins
  5. ^ Boondoggling, Baseball, and the WPA, Pg. 63; Kossuth, Robert
  6. ^ Time Magazine Online
  7. ^ Baseball-Almanac player page
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