American baseball player and umpire (born 1864)

Bob Caruthers

Robert Lee Caruthers, nicknamed "Parisian Bob", was an American right-handed pitcher and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the St. Louis Browns and Brooklyn Bridegrooms. The star pitcher on five league champions in a ten-year career, he was the top pitcher in the American Association, leading that league in wins and shutouts twice each, winning percentage three times, and earned run average once. 62 was the lowest of any pitcher with at least 2,000 innings in the league; he was also the only pitcher to have 40-win seasons for two different Association teams.

Born

1864

January 5

Died

1911

Era

1860s

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1864 Born
1911 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

1477 Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1675 Battle of Colmar: The French army defeats forces from Austria and Brandenburg.
1757 Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who becomes the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering (the traditional form of capital punishment used for regicides).
1781 American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by former American general Benedict Arnold.

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The world in 1911

When Bob departed

april 2 The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
april 27 The Second Canton Uprising takes place in Guangzhou, Qing China, but is suppressed.
april 29 Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
april 6 During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).

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Same-day contemporaries

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Carolyn McCarthy 1944–2025 American nurse and politician (died 2025) Claude Martin 1735–1800 French-English general and explorer (died 1800) Hosea Williams 1926– American businessman and activist (died 2000) Jean-Baptiste Say 1767–1832 French economist and academic (died 1832) Kristin Cavallari 1987– American television personality Paramahansa Yogananda 1893– Indian-American guru and philosopher (died 1952) Stephen Cole Kleene 1909–1994 American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (born 1909) Suki Waterhouse 1992– English actress, singer-songwriter, and model Tyler Ulis 1996– American basketball player and coach

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1864

Anna Jarvis 1864–1948 American founder of Mother's Day (died 1948) Apolinario Mabini 1864–1903 Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (died 1903) Heinrich Wölfflin 1864– Swiss historian and critic (died 1945) John Jacob Astor IV 1864– American colonel and businessman (died 1912) Philip Snowden 1864–1937 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1937) Richard Harding Davis 1864–1916 American journalist and author (born 1864)

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