American baseball player and manager (died 1925)

Christy Mathewson

Christopher Mathewson, nicknamed "Big Six," "the Christian Gentleman," "Matty," and "the Gentleman's Hurler," was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Giants. 85 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg). He was among the most dominant pitchers in baseball history, and ranks in the all-time top 10 in several key pitching categories, including wins, shutouts, and earned run average. In 1936, Mathewson was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its first five members.

Born

1880

August 12

Died

1925

Era

1880s

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Key dates

1880 Born
1925 Died

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The world in 1925

When Christy departed

april 10 The Russian city of Tsaritsyn is renamed Stalingrad to honor the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, who had guided the defense of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War in 1920.
april 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
april 17 The Communist Party of Korea (CPK) was founded in Japanese-ruled Korea (Chōsen) in Keijō (now Seoul) by Kim Yong-bom and Pak Hon-yong.
april 19 Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David Arellano and some of his teammates who had also left the Deportes Magallanes club.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1880

Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 American general (born 1880) Elsie J. Oxenham 1880–1960 English author and educator (born 1880) Hans Hofmann 1880–1966 German-American painter (born 1880) John L. Lewis 1880– American miner and union leader (died 1969) Lawrence Oates 1880– English lieutenant and explorer (died 1912) Milan Rastislav Štefánik 1880–1919 Slovak astronomer, general, and politician (died 1919) Oswald Spengler 1880–1936 German historian and philosopher (died 1936) Tudor Arghezi 1880–1967 Romanian author and poet (born 1880)

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