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|Text=<p>Excelsior star Jim Creighton, 21 years old, suffered some sort of injury during the middle innings of a game against Morrisania on October 14, 1862, and died four days later of a "strangulated intestine" associated with a hernia. [Other accounts cite a ruptured bladder - ouch.] One legend was that Creighton suffered the injury in the process of "hitting out a home run." Excelsior officials attributed the death to a cricket injury incurred in a prior cricket match.</p> | |Text=<p>Excelsior star Jim Creighton, 21 years old, suffered some sort of injury during the middle innings of a game against Morrisania on October 14, 1862, and died four days later of a "strangulated intestine" associated with a hernia. [Other accounts cite a ruptured bladder - ouch.] One legend was that Creighton suffered the injury in the process of "hitting out a home run." Excelsior officials attributed the death to a cricket injury incurred in a prior cricket match.</p> | ||
<p>R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, <u>Death at the Ballpark</u> (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64.</p> | <p>R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, <u>Death at the Ballpark</u> (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64.</p> | ||
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| Text | Excelsior star Jim Creighton, 21 years old, suffered some sort of injury during the middle innings of a game against Morrisania on October 14, 1862, and died four days later of a "strangulated intestine" associated with a hernia. [Other accounts cite a ruptured bladder - ouch.] One legend was that Creighton suffered the injury in the process of "hitting out a home run." Excelsior officials attributed the death to a cricket injury incurred in a prior cricket match. R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, Death at the Ballpark (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64. |
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