BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1849 Sam Jackson
Hailing from Ripon (North Yorkshire) in England, Jackson played second base briefly for the Boston Red Stockings in 1871 and even more briefly with the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1872.
After his baseball days, Jackson worked as a miller until his retirement and passed away on 04 August 1930 in Gypsum, NY. From what I can tell, Samuel immigrated to the United States in 1853 and had at least a brother and a sister (Thomas and Mary). He married Mary Bell of New York (and, like Samuel, of British ancestry) and they had three children: Minnie (or Mary), Frank, and Laura. The Jacksons lived in Canada at least temporarily as Mary was listed as having been born there in 1879. Someone kindly posted a copy of his obituary to Jackson’s FindaGrave.com page.
Other sources include his Baseball-Reference.com page, the US Censuses of 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930.
1854 Pat Sullivan
Credited with managing Columbus for three games in 1891, winning two. He was a temporary replacement, I guess… His life was, like his MLB career, short. Born in Lewisburg, VA (now West Virginia), his family moved to Columbus around the time of the Civil War. Patrick married Augusta Weisz, had two daughters, and died in Columbus in 1896.
1863 Jim McCauley
1865 Billy Klusman
1869 Al Lawson
1872 Kip Selbach
1874 Roy Thomas
1882 Joe Bernard
1884 Mike Mowrey
1891 Ernie Shore
1892 Fred Trautman
1893 George Sisler
1906 Pat Veltman
1907 Gus Dugas
1911 Jim Bucher
1912 Jud McLaughlin
1917 Dave Bartosch
1922 Saul Rogovin
1925 Dick Kryhoski
1937 Dick Egan
1937 Bob Tillman
1942 Jesus Alou
1956 Garry Templeton
1958 Bruce Hurst
1959 Mike Brown
1960 Dwight Taylor
1961 Al Chambers
1962 Ron Robinson
1970 Wilson Alvarez
1972 Steve Karsay
1972 Jose Cabrera
1974 Jamie Arnold
1974 Jim Rushford
1976 Joe Davenport
1976 Scott Wiggins
1978 Jose Valverde
1979 Norris Hopper
1981 Dirk Hayhurst
1982 Corey Hart
1982 Heath Phillips
1982 Rob Tejeda
1982 Dustin McGowan
1983 Chad Gaudin
1983 Devon Lowery
1987 Josh Zeid
1987 Lucas Luetge
1990 Starlin Castro
1993 Christopher Bostick
1993 J. B. Wendelken
1994 Kevin Ginkel
OBITUARIES:
1888 Bill Collver
His profile on FindAGrave.com says he died of a spinal illness; the Detroit Free Press says he died following a minor surgery.
1894 Mike Jones
1901 Mike Trost
1911 Stan Robison
1914 Jack Brennan
1918 Jack Farrell
1919 John Bates
1921 Larry McLean
1936 Charlie Parsons
1938 Joe Dolan
1944 Bob Glenalvin
1948 Jimmy Bannon
1950 Bert Lewis
1954 Chubby Snyder
1963 Daff Gammons
1966 George O’Brien
1968 Ovid Nicholson
1972 Dick Coffman
1983 George Darrow
1986 Hank Grampp
1996 Ray Pepper
1996 Jerry Robertson
1999 Birdie Tebbetts
2002 Mace Brown
2008 Tom Upton
2009 George Kell
2012 Dennis Bennett
2014 Sonny Ruberto
2018 Carl Scheib
The youngest AL player – a pitcher for Connie Mack at 16 – died at 91.
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!
1952 – Maybe not… Cardinals pitcher Bob Slaybaugh is hit by a line drive during batting practice that results in the removal of his left eye. He tries a comeback the following season but is never quite the same pitcher.
TRANSACTION WIRE:
1943 Brooklyn sells Schoolboy Rowe to the Phillies.
1967 Houston trades Sandy Alomar to the Mets for Derrell Griffith.
1973 Oakland trades Dave Duncan and George Hendrick to Cleveland for Ray Fosse and Jack Heidemann.
1984 Detroit trades John Wockenfuss and Glenn Wilson to Philadelphia for Willie Hernandez and Dave Bergman.
1985 San Francisco sends Dusty Baker to Oakland for Ed Puikunas and Dan Winters.
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