Allan Travers

Who was Allan Travers?

Aloysius Joseph "Allan" Travers, aka Rev. Aloysius Stanislaus Travers was a Major League Baseball pitcher who made a one-game appearance during the 1912 strike of the Detroit Tigers.

Travers was only playing because the Detroit Tigers team had refused to play after their team mate Ty Cobb had been suspended for attacking a heckler who called him a "half-n*gger" during a game against the New York Yankees at Hilltop Park three days earlier.

Travers does not, as is often reported, hold the major league record for most hits or runs allowed in a game, although he does hold the major league record for earned runs in a single major league game. The Cleveland Blues' Dave Rowe, who was primarily an outfielder, gave up 35 runs on 29 hits in a game played on July 24, 1882. Travers does hold the two negative records for American League play.