Grant Thatcher
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Ulysses Grant Thatcher (February 23, 1877 – March 17, 1936) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball in the United States.
Biography
Born in Maytown, Pennsylvania on February 23, 1877, Thatcher pitched in five games for the Brooklyn Superbas during the 1903 and 1904 baseball seasons, making four starts, and acquiring a 4–1 record with a 3.16 earned run average during his appearances.
Thatcher had an unusual end to his Major League career. When the Superbas attempted to play a second Sunday home game on April 24 against the Philadelphia Phillies, the club was tipped off that the pitcher, catcher and hitter at the start of the game would be arrested. Thus three "decoys" were inserted at the start of the game, with Ed Poole being replaced by Thatcher after Poole's arrest.[1]
Death
Thatcher died at the age of fifty-nine in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on March 17, 1936.
References
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- 1877 births
- 1936 deaths
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Brooklyn Superbas players
- Baseball players from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Lancaster Maroons players
- Johnstown Mormans players
- Palmyra Mormans players
- Brockton Shoemakers players
- Reading Coal Heavers players
- Bristol Bell Makers players
- Troy Washerwomen players
- Ilion Typewriters players
- Los Angeles (minor league baseball) players
- Savannah Pathfinders players
- Johnstown Johnnies players
- Burials at Woodward Hill Cemetery