Roger Connor
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Roger Connor (July 1, 1857 – January 4, 1931) was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player during the 19th century.
He played for many sports, but his longest time with the New York Gothams was in New York, where he was the Giants' president.
He was the player for whom Babe Ruth became the all-time home run champion.
Connor's career spanned the years, he hit 138 home runs during his 18-year career, and his career home run record remained for 23 years after his 1897 retirement. Since his time in football, Connor owned and operated minor league baseball teams.
In 1976, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
Connor was buried in an unmarked grave until a group of locals raised money for a grave marker in 2001, despite being largely forgotten after his burial.
Early life
Connor was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was the son of Irish immigrants Mortimer Connor and Catherine Sullivan Connor. His father was in the United States only five years before Roger's birth. The family lived in Waterbury's Irish district, which was separated from the rest of the city by a large granite hill. Connor was the third of eleven children born to the family, but two of them did not survive childhood. Connor left school at the age of 12 to work with his father at the local brass works.
In 1876, Connor played for the Waterbury Monitors of the Eastern League in professional baseball. Despite being left-handed, Connor was originally a third baseman; left-handed third basemen were more popular in early baseball than they are in modern baseball. In 1878, he would play for the Holyoke Shamrocks in the minor leagues, where he was known for hitting home runs across the Connecticut River. When he purchased the Connors out in 1880, this sobbed Springfield baseball manager Bob Ferguson says he signed them into the National League (NL) Troy Trojans.
Later life
In June 1897, Connor joined the Fall River Indians of the New England League. Connor attracted some notice by wearing eyeglasses on the track. He hit cleanup, played first base, and was extremely popular with fans. In 1898, Connor returned to Waterbury, England, and purchased the local minor league team. He served as president, boss, and fought in first base on the side. Angeline, Connor's wife, kept the team's journals, and his daughter helped with collecting tickets. Joe Connor was the team's catcher; he later returned to the major leagues for several seasons. Connor expressed admiration for his Waterbury team's efforts during the 1899 season, saying that the team did well and didn't lose money despite not receiving high attendance numbers at their games.
Connor, a 1904 boy from Hartford, Connecticut, became interested in purchasing the minor league franchise. The team had been barred from the Eastern League and had suffered financial difficulties as a result of traveling as far away as Canada for games. Connor suggested that he purchase the team and bring it to the Connecticut State League, lowering the travel expenses. However, he purchased the Springfield Ponies franchise in the same league after selling the Waterbury club at the end of the season.
Connor resigned from baseball in September 1903 and put his team up for auction. He made a similar statement a year ago, but reportedly on a regular basis before that. "Roger bobs up every summer and bids his farewell to the baseball world in June 1902," the local newspaper announced. But his 1903 retirement was still earnest; he watched a 1904 Springfield-Norwich game as a retired spectator.
Connor worked as a school inspector in Waterbury from 1920 to 1920. He lived to see Babe Ruth's record broken, but it may have been on the wrong day. According to Sporting News' book Daguerotypes, Connor's record was estimated to be 131. In the MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia, it was predicted that it was 136 years old as late as the 1980s. However, John Tattersall's 1975 Home Run Handbook, a publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), credited Connor with 138 runs. Connor's total number is now 138, according to MLB.com and the independent Baseball-Reference.com.
Connor died on January 4, 1931, after a lengthy stomach illness. He was 73 years old. According to a news story about his death, his "likeable demeanor and his colorful behavior made him an idol." He was buried in an unmarked grave at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Waterbury. In 1976, Connor was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Bill Klem, a Hall of Fame umpire, had long campaigned on behalf of Connor's induction into the Hall of Fame. Waterbury residents and baseball fans raised enough funds to buy a headstone at his grave, which was unveiled in a 2001 commemoration.
MLB playing career
In Connor's first year with the Troy Trojans, he collaborated with future Hall of Fame players Dan Brouthers, Buck Ewing, Tim Keefe, and Mickey Welch, all of whom were just getting off the ground. Player-manager Bob "Death to Flying Things" Ferguson was also on the 1880 Trojans team, although much older. Despite the fact that Connor, Ferguson, and Welch were all in the lineup, the team's future stars all appeared in just a handful of the team's 83 games this season. With a 41–42 loss record, the team finished fourth in fourth place. Connor made 60 errors in 83 games and sustained a shoulder injury, causing a spot change to first baseman for 1881.
He later played for the New York Gothams and earned the team the enduring nickname "Giants" due to his great stature. On September 10, 1881, Connor scored his first grand slam at Riverfront Park in Rensselaer, New York. In the bottom of the ninth inning, his grand slam came with two outs and his team down three runs, a situation that has been described today as a walk-off home run. "Roger Connor was a complete player, a deft first baseman and an agile base runner who stole 244 bases despite his height (6 foot 3 inches and 200 pounds)," the New York Times wrote.
In 1885, he led the NL with a.371 average. Connor hit a ball completely out of the Polo Grounds on September 11, 1886, making it a difficult park in which to hit home runs. He took the field fence and onto 112nd Street from Boston's Old Hoss Radbourn. "He touched it clearly and the rate of a carrier pigeon skyrocketed," the New York Times said. As it soars over Charlie Buffinton's head in right field, all attention was turned on the tiny globe. A group of Connor's supporters bought him a $500 gold watch in honor of the home run.
In 1890, a second New York baseball team, also known as the Giants, emerged with the establishment of the Players' League (PL) in 1890. Several members of the NL squad have left for the Giants team in the new league, including Hall of Famers Connor, Keefe, Jim O'Rourke, and Hank O'Day. Connor batted in 123 games, with a.349 batting average, 14 home runs, 103 runs batted in (RBI) and 22 stolen bases. His home run total led the league, but it was the only major league single-season home run title he earned. That year, Connor played with some improvements to his batting style. He hit more balls to the opposite field and batted right-handed on occasion, but left the wrong side with no luck.
Despite the fact that Connor had success in his season with the PL, the league suffered. Any of the teams had financial difficulties. Many of their games had been postponed indefinitely due to rainouts, and a large number of PL games were postponed late in the season. Connor was optimistic that the game would be profitable in 1891, but it soon ended in January.
Connor, who played for the NL Giants in 1891, reached.294. Connor was a member of the Philadelphia Athletics in the offseason before 1892. Connor was fired shortly after he was signed, and the Philadelphia Phillies were able to him for the rest of the year. In 1893, he returned to the Giants, raising his average to.322 and hitting 11 home runs. The Giants started looking forward to the team's youth during the 1894 season, but Connor lost his starting position to Jack Doyle. He was born in the year and drafted by the St. Louis Browns in the St. Louis Browns. Joe Connor made his big league debut with the same team this year. Joe appeared in two games with St. Louis before being sent back to the minor leagues. The St. Louis team finished 39-92 as a result, 48+12 games behind first place, in the first year.
After starting the season with a.227 batting average, Connor was released by the Browns in May 1897. His time in the major leagues was over. Connor, a Major League player, was regularly among the league's top batting average and home runs. Connor's career record of 138 was not surpassed by Babe Ruth until 1921. He had a.317 batting average throughout his career. Connor made the top ten of the batting average ten times, with some appearing between 1880 and 1891. Connor ranked in the top ten for doubles ten times, appeared in the top three for triples seven times, and remained fifth all-time in triples with 233 points. He also established his power by finishing in the top ten percent in RBI ten times and top ten in homers twelve times.