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|Sources=<p>R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Death at the Ballpark</span> (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64.</p> | |Sources=<p>R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Death at the Ballpark</span> (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64.</p> | ||
<p>Richard Bogovich, "The Martyrdom of Jim Creighton-- Excelsiors of Brooklyn vs. Unions", in <em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century </em>(SABR, 2013), pp. 43-46</p> | <p>Richard Bogovich, "The Martyrdom of Jim Creighton-- Excelsiors of Brooklyn vs. Unions", in <em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century </em>(SABR, 2013), pp. 43-46</p> | ||
<p>See | <p>See Tom Gilbert's 3/4/2021 blog at <a href="https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/how-baseball-killed-its-first-star-player" target="_blank">https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/how-baseball-killed-its-first-star-player</a>. Tom's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">How Baseball Happened</span> (Godine, 2020) carries Creighton's base ball career at p. 185ff, and his death is discussed on pp. 212-215.</p> | ||
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|Comment=<p>Tom Shieber, Hall of Fame curator who has studied Creighton extensively, believes the injury was an inguinal hernia which ruptured. In an article published on December 7, 1862, the <em>New York Sunday Mercury </em>recounts a conversation with Creighton before the Union game in which he states that he had injured himself in a recent cricket match. It is assumed that he received the hernia in the cricket match and that it ruptured during the Union game.</p> | |Comment=<p>Tom Shieber, Hall of Fame curator who has studied Creighton extensively, believes the injury was an inguinal hernia which ruptured. In an article published on December 7, 1862, the <em>New York Sunday Mercury </em>recounts a conversation with Creighton before the Union game in which he states that he had injured himself in a recent cricket match. It is assumed that he received the hernia in the cricket match and that it ruptured during the Union game.</p> | ||
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Text | Excelsior star pitcher James Creighton, 21 years old, suffered some sort of injury during the middle innings of a game against the Union of 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. Creighton was perhaps base ball's first superstar.
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Sources | R. M. Gorman and D. Weeks, Death at the Ballpark (McFarland, 2009), pages 63-64. Richard Bogovich, "The Martyrdom of Jim Creighton-- Excelsiors of Brooklyn vs. Unions", in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pp. 43-46 See Tom Gilbert's 3/4/2021 blog at https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/how-baseball-killed-its-first-star-player. Tom's How Baseball Happened (Godine, 2020) carries Creighton's base ball career at p. 185ff, and his death is discussed on pp. 212-215. |
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Comment | Tom Shieber, Hall of Fame curator who has studied Creighton extensively, believes the injury was an inguinal hernia which ruptured. In an article published on December 7, 1862, the New York Sunday Mercury recounts a conversation with Creighton before the Union game in which he states that he had injured himself in a recent cricket match. It is assumed that he received the hernia in the cricket match and that it ruptured during the Union game. Edit with form to add a comment |
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