American baseball player and manager (born 1850)

Ross Barnes

Charles Roscoe Barnes was one of the stars of baseball's National Association (1871–1875) and the early National League (1876–1881), playing second base and shortstop. He played for the dominant Boston Red Stockings teams of the early 1870s, along with Albert Spalding, Cal McVey, George Wright, Harry Wright, Jim O'Rourke, and Deacon White. Despite playing for these star-studded teams, many claim that Ross was the most valuable to his teams. However, injuries limited his power in his peak and his professional career ended at the age of 31.

Born

1850

May 8

Died

1915

Era

1850s

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Ross, in brief

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1915 Died

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589 Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.
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The world in 1915

When Ross departed

april 18 World War I: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines.
april 22 World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
april 24 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
april 25 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1850

Florence Earle Coates 1850–1927 American poet (born 1850) George F. Durand 1850–1889 Canadian architect (born 1850) Henry Cabot Lodge 1850–1924 American historian and politician (died 1924) Karl Ferdinand Braun 1850–1918 German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1850) Luigi Cadorna 1850– Italian field marshal (died 1928) Mihai Eminescu 1850–1889 Romanian journalist, author, and poet (died 1889) Oliver Heaviside 1850– English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (died 1925) Samuel Gompers 1850–1924 English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (born 1850) Sofia Kovalevskaya 1850–1891 Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (born 1850)

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