Frank Martin (baseball player)

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Frank Martin (1904)

Frank Joseph Martin (born July 29, 1878 in Denver , Colorado , † September 2, 1942 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American baseball player who played for various major league clubs on the position of third baseman from 1897 to 1899 .

Life

Martin's athletic career began in 1897. After he had already attended the training of the Chicago Colts for several weeks and made friends with the players during this time, the coach of the Louisville Colonels , Fred Clarke , decided, because he did not have enough players, Martin for a game of his Team against the Chicago Colts, so that Martin played his first baseball game in the Major League on July 30, 1897. Clarke then kept Martin for a second game on the team, but in August 1897 Martin was back on the Chicago Colts training ground. In 1898 he completed a game for the Chicago Colts, now called the Chicago Orphans. In 1899 he played for the New York Gianst and completed a total of 17 games with his team that year, most recently on September 25 against the Boston Beaneaters .

In 1900 he played for the Illinois Steel , a baseball team of the Chicago City League made up entirely of steel workers. Soon afterwards, his further sporting career led him to various minor leagues . So he played in the Central League for Danville and moved to the Western League that same season , where he played some games for Cleveland and Buffalo. From 1901 he played for two seasons for Little Rock in the Southern Association . In 1903 he played for Louisville and Minneapolis in the American Association . From this point on, however, he was only used as a substitute and ended his professional career after this season.

Martin worked the rest of his life as a clerk for the Census Bureau in Chicago. He died at the age of 64. Martin had been married since 1902.

literature

  • David Nemec: The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball: Biographies of 1,084 Players, Owners, Managers and Umpires (2012)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Baseball-Reference.com
  2. ↑ David Prebenna: The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball (1993)
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Frank Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American baseball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1942
Place of death Chicago , Illinois