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No, not a stripper, but an outfielder/first baseman who played for several teams at the turn of the 20th century. he died on this date in 1932.
Bonus Candy: Candy Cummings, credited with “inventing” the curveball, played in his last game on this date in 1877.
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Candy seems to take the cake when it comes to credit for the curve… but it is not without some question.
This from Wiki: “While it is difficult, if not impossible, to pin down definitively who did first invent or throw the first curveball, the lore is that Candy Cummings threw the first known curveball during a game in 1867 in Worcester, Massachusetts, with the Brooklyn Excelsiors (some say the Brooklyn Stars).
On the other hand, Fred Goldsmith is credited with giving the first publicly recorded demonstration of a curveball to legendary sporstwriter-baseball historian (and Hall of Famer) Henry Chadwick on August 16, 1870, at the Capitoline Grounds in Brooklyn, New York. {Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, August 17, 1870.}”
The important thing is it probably happened in Brooklyn…
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