Major league baseball player 1904-1910. Pitcher and position player for the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals.
He achieved some success pitching in the early Deadball Era. But plagued by a fragile constitution, recurring illness, and arm miseries, his major league career was over before he turned 30. Yet over a century later, the name of this otherwise unmemorable player lingers in baseball annals. The reason: Frank Corridon is often cited as the inventor of the spitball.
On October 25, 1910, Frank and sweetheart Adeline (Mary Adelina) Sullivan were married at St. Mary's Church in Newport. Within a decade, the couple had five daughters: Adelaide (born 1911), Frances (1913), Margaret Natalie (1914), Geraldine (1916), and Evelyn (1920).
The year of birth (1883) on his gravestone is erroneous, as all baseball historical sources list his birth as being in 1880.
He achieved some success pitching in the early Deadball Era. But plagued by a fragile constitution, recurring illness, and arm miseries, his major league career was over before he turned 30. Yet over a century later, the name of this otherwise unmemorable player lingers in baseball annals. The reason: Frank Corridon is often cited as the inventor of the spitball.
On October 25, 1910, Frank and sweetheart Adeline (Mary Adelina) Sullivan were married at St. Mary's Church in Newport. Within a decade, the couple had five daughters: Adelaide (born 1911), Frances (1913), Margaret Natalie (1914), Geraldine (1916), and Evelyn (1920).
The year of birth (1883) on his gravestone is erroneous, as all baseball historical sources list his birth as being in 1880.
Major league baseball player 1904-1910. Pitcher and position player for the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals.
He achieved some success pitching in the early Deadball Era. But plagued by a fragile constitution, recurring illness, and arm miseries, his major league career was over before he turned 30. Yet over a century later, the name of this otherwise unmemorable player lingers in baseball annals. The reason: Frank Corridon is often cited as the inventor of the spitball.
On October 25, 1910, Frank and sweetheart Adeline (Mary Adelina) Sullivan were married at St. Mary's Church in Newport. Within a decade, the couple had five daughters: Adelaide (born 1911), Frances (1913), Margaret Natalie (1914), Geraldine (1916), and Evelyn (1920).
The year of birth (1883) on his gravestone is erroneous, as all baseball historical sources list his birth as being in 1880.
He achieved some success pitching in the early Deadball Era. But plagued by a fragile constitution, recurring illness, and arm miseries, his major league career was over before he turned 30. Yet over a century later, the name of this otherwise unmemorable player lingers in baseball annals. The reason: Frank Corridon is often cited as the inventor of the spitball.
On October 25, 1910, Frank and sweetheart Adeline (Mary Adelina) Sullivan were married at St. Mary's Church in Newport. Within a decade, the couple had five daughters: Adelaide (born 1911), Frances (1913), Margaret Natalie (1914), Geraldine (1916), and Evelyn (1920).
The year of birth (1883) on his gravestone is erroneous, as all baseball historical sources list his birth as being in 1880.
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