Art Ball

Infielder, Baseball Player

1876 – 1915

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Who was Art Ball?

Arthur Clark Ball was an American Major League Baseball player from Kentucky. Ball played parts of two seasons in the Majors; one game for the 1894 St. Louis Browns, and 32 games for the 1898 Baltimore Orioles.

After his professional baseball career ended after 1913, he moved to Chicago, where he was a nightwatchman. Ball died at the age of 39 in Chicago of liver cirrhosis and peritonitis with pulmonary tuberculosis, and is interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery.

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Born
Apr 1, 1876
Kentucky
Profession
Lived in
  • Kentucky
Died
Dec 26, 1915
Chicago

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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