Tommy Bond (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Major League Baseball player
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Place of Birth: Granard, Leinster, Ireland
About Tommy Bond (baseball)
- Thomas Henry Bond (April 2, 1856 – January 24, 1941) was a Major League Baseball player who was a pitcher and a right fielder a total of ten seasons.
- A native of Granard, Ireland, he is the first man born in Ireland to play Major League Baseball.
- Bond was also the last survivor of the National League's first season (1876).
- Bond played for six teams during his career: the Brooklyn Atlantics (1874), Hartford Dark Blues (1875–76), Boston Red Caps (1877–81), Worcester Ruby Legs (1882), Boston Reds (1884), and Indianapolis Hoosiers (1884).
- He also managed the Worcester team for six games.During his 10-season career, he was a three-time 40-game winner, played for two National League pennant-winning clubs, and regularly finished in the top ten in many pitching categories.
- In 1877, he was the first winner of baseball's pitching Triple Crown, leading the NL in wins (40), earned run average (2.11), and strikeouts (170).
- His career statistics include a record of 234-163, 386 complete games in 408 starts, 42 shutouts, and an ERA of 2.31.
- Bond also played 92 games in the outfield, a few more in the infield, and batted .238 with 174 RBI and 213 runs scored.
- Bond currently holds the third-best strikeouts per walks rate in baseball history, at a 5.0363 ratio, for pitchers who threw a minimum 1000 innings.
- Bond previously held the record for over 130 years, and as of 2018 still holds the record for retired pitchers.
- Bond died the age of 84 in Boston, Massachusetts, and is interred at Forest Hills Cemetery.
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