Allan Travers Baseball player

Aloysius Joseph "Allan" Travers, aka Rev. Aloysius Stanislaus Travers (May 7, 1892 – April 19, 1968) 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-nigger" 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 (12 earned) on 29 hits in a game played on July 24, 1882. Travers does hold the two negative records for American League play.

Personal facts

Birth dateMay 07, 1892
Birth place
Philadelphia
Date of deathApril 19, 1968
Place of death
Philadelphia

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Baseball player

Career startMay 18, 1912
Career endMay 18, 1912
batting sideRight
former teams
Detroit Tigers
position
Pitcher
teams
Detroit Tigers
throwing sideRight

Allan Travers on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=1937&pid=14325
  2. http://thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obits_T/Travers.Aloysius.Obit.html