Doc Powers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Doc Powers

American baseball player

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1870

Place of Birth: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 26-Apr-1909

Profession: baseball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Doc Powers

  • Michael Riley "Doc" Powers (September 22, 1870 – April 26, 1909) was an American Major League Baseball player who caught for four teams from 1898 to 1909.
  • He played for the Louisville Colonels and Washington Senators of the National League, and the Philadelphia Athletics and New York Highlanders of the American League.
  • He played college baseball at the University of Notre Dame in 1897 and 1898.
  • His nickname was derived honestly from the fact he was a licensed physician as well as a ballplayer.
  • During a brief stint with the New York Highlanders in 1905, Powers caught while Jim "Doc" Newton pitched, creating the only known example of a two-physician battery in Major League history.On April 12, 1909, Powers was injured during the first game played in Philadelphia's Shibe Park, crashing into a wall while chasing a foul pop-up.
  • He sustained internal injuries from the collision and died two weeks later from complications from three intestinal surgeries, becoming possibly the first Major Leaguer to suffer an on-field injury that eventually led to his death The immediate cause of death was peritonitis arising from post-surgery infections.Powers left behind his wife, Florence W.
  • Ehrmann; and three daughters.
  • He was buried in St.
  • Louis Catholic Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.Eleven years later in 1920, Ray Chapman became the only MLB player to be directly killed by an on-field injury when he was hit in the head by a pitch.
  • Powers' injury may have served as the inspiration for that suffered by "Bump" Bailey, a minor character in Bernard Malamud's novel The Natural, as well as its subsequent film adaptation.

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