Danny Shay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Major League Baseball player
Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1876
Place of Birth: Springfield, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 01-Dec-1927
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Danny Shay
- Daniel Charles Shay (born Daniel Shea, November 8, 1876 – December 1, 1927) was a shortstop, manager and scout in professional baseball in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Shay's baseball career was relatively mediocre, but his short temper was well-documented.
- He is probably most remembered for being acquitted in the shooting death of a black man in 1917.
- The son of Irish immigrants, Shay was born in Springfield, Ohio.
- He played four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), for the Cleveland Blues (1901), the St.
- Louis Cardinals (1904-1905), and the New York Giants (1907).
- Even during his early baseball career, Shay had several interests outside of playing the game.
- He owned a cigar shop, several race horses and a minor league baseball team.
- Shay did not play much after a finger amputation in 1905.
- He served as a minor league manager between 1908 and 1917. While managing the Milwaukee Brewers of the American Association during the 1917 season, Shay visited a hotel cafe in Indianapolis.
- He fatally shot black waiter Clarence Euell in an argument stemming from a request for sugar; he claimed self-defense.
- Race was a contentious issue in the city at that time, and during Shay's nine-day trial, both the prosecution and defense attempted to use racial or ethnic stereotypes to their advantage.
- Shay was acquitted of murder charges.
- In subsequent media coverage, the verdict was criticized as an injustice. Out of the game for several years after his murder trial, Shay was hired as a scout in his last baseball role.
- He suffered a stroke and lost the use of his right arm and hand.
- Ten years after he was acquitted in the murder trial, he was found dead in a hotel room with a gunshot wound to the head.
- Authorities could not definitively rule out either suicide or murder.
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