Tommy Bond (baseball)
Tommy Bond | |
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
May 5, 1874, for the Brooklyn Atlantics | |
Last MLB appearance | |
August 11, 1884, for the Indianapolis Hoosiers | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 234–163 |
Earned run average | 2.14 |
Strikeouts | 972 |
Teams | |
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As manager
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Career highlights and awards | |
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Thomas Henry Bond (April 2, 1856 – January 24, 1941) was an Irish-born Major League Baseball player who was a pitcher and a right fielder for a total of ten seasons. A native of Granard, Ireland, he is the first man born in Ireland to play Major League Baseball. Bond was also the last survivor of the National League's first season (1876).
Early life
Tommy Bond was born on April 2, 1856, in Granard, Ireland, to an English father and Irish mother.[1] The family migrated to Brooklyn, New York, in 1862, and Tommy played amateur and semiprofessional baseball there in the early 1870s.[1]
Career
Bond played for six teams during his career: the
On October 20 of his rookie year, he fell one out short of what would have been major league baseball's first no-hitter. Two years later, he was the losing pitcher in the first successful no-hitter, hurled by George Bradley on July 15, 1876.[1]
During his 10-season career, he was a three-time 40-game winner, played for two National League
Bond threw a fastball, curveball, and by the end of his career a spitball.[1]
Later life and death
Bond married his wife, Louise, in 1879, and they had three children.[1]
After retirement from pro baseball, Bond worked stints as an umpire in the National League, minor leagues, and college games.[1] He also worked in his wife's family leather business and then for the city of Boston for decades.[1]
Bond received a single Hall of Fame vote from the Veterans Committee's 1936 ballot.[3]
Bond died the age of 84 in 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts, and is interred at Forest Hills Cemetery.[4]
Honors
In the Irish Baseball League, the annual award for the best pitcher is named "The 'Tommy Bond' Best Pitcher Award."
See also
- List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders
- Major League Baseball Triple Crown
- List of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders
- List of Major League Baseball annual strikeout leaders
- List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders
- List of players from Ireland in Major League Baseball
- List of Major League Baseball player-managers
- Baseball awards#Ireland
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Tommy Bond at the SABR Baseball Biography Project , by Chris Rainey, Retrieved October 27, 2019.
- ^ "Tommy Bond Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Career Leaders & Records for Strikeouts / Base On Balls". Baseball Reference. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
- ^ "Tommy Bond's career statistics". Retrosheet, Inc. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Tommy Bond at Find a Grave