Jul Kustus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1882
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date of Death: 27-Apr-1916
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Jul Kustus
- Joseph Julius Kustus (September 5, 1882 in Detroit, Michigan – April 27, 1916 in Eloise, Michigan), was a professional baseball player who played outfield for the 1909 Brooklyn Superbas.
- Tuberculosis forced his early retirement from the game, and contributed to his death at the age of 33.Kustus was the son of Anthony Kustus and Elizabeth Flemming Ponke.
- They were married September 16, 1877 in St.
- Albertus Church in Detroit.
- Jul was a baseball player who played outfield for various amateur teams in Detroit beginning around 1901.
- Some of the teams were Selling and May, Hillsides, the C.C.
- Wormer Machinery Co., and Bynum and Co.
- These teams would compete in tournaments for cash prizes.
- He played professional baseball for the 1909 Brooklyn Superbas who later became the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- He had a short career as a professional baseball player because he debuted April 17, 1909 and his last game was July 10, 1909.
- He came back to Detroit where he played amateur baseball again until 1914.Joseph "Jul" died in the Eloise Sanitarium in Nankin Township, Michigan April 27, 1916 of pulmonary tuberculosis.
- He had been a patient there for only 16 days.
- Many patients in the end stages of tuberculosis were admitted to the sanitarium because it was the only option available to them.
- Joseph was admitted April 11, 1916 and was only 33 years 7 months and 22 days old when he died.
- His occupation is listed as a laborer in the Eloise death ledger book.He never married but had a relationship with a woman named Rose Ann Zimmeth and they were business partners in a Detroit grocery.
- The grocery located at 1249 Mack Ave.
- was called the J.R.
- Grocery.
- He was survived by a brother August who also died of tuberculosis in 1917 and two sisters Mrs.
- Julia Sabatini and Mrs.
- C.
- French, and two half-sisters Annie Lukaszek and Elizabeth Kozlowski.Some baseball web sites list his burial place as Detroit Memorial Park West in Redford, Michigan, but Jul is buried in Sacred Heart of St.
- Mary Cemetery (also known as Greenwood) in Detroit near his brother's grave.
- His grave marker was deteriorated and mostly unreadable when it was examined in the 1990s.
- Over the years a sycamore tree has grown around and right through his headstone damaging it into pieces, leaving only the base which is now embedded into the tree.
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