Art Ball

Art Ball
Art Ball
	Infielder
	Born: April 1876; Kentucky, United States
	Died: December 26, 1915 (aged 39); Chicago
	Batted: Unknown Threw: Right
MLB debut
	August 1, 1894, for the St. Louis Browns
Last MLB appearance
	October 15, 1898, for the Baltimore Orioles
MLB statistics
Games played	33
Hits	16
Batting average	.190
Teams
	St. Louis Browns (1894); Baltimore Orioles (1898);

Arthur Clark Ball^[1] (April 1876 – December 26, 1915) was an American Major League Baseball player from Kentucky. Ball played parts of two seasons in the Majors; one game for the 1894 St. Louis Browns, and 32 games for the 1898 Baltimore Orioles.^[2]

After his professional baseball career ended after 1913, he moved to Chicago,^[3] where he was a nightwatchman.^[4] Ball died at the age of 39 in Chicago of liver cirrhosis and peritonitis with pulmonary tuberculosis,^[5] and is interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery.^[2]

References

^ "Art Ball's career statistics". baseball-reference.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Art Ball's career statistics". retrosheet.org. Retrieved February 13, 2009.
^ "Art Ball's Obituary". The New York Times. December 28, 1915. Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2009.
^ "Heading Home". thedeadballera.com. Retrieved February 13, 2009.
^ "Too Young To Die". thedeadballera.com. Retrieved February 13, 2009.

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