october march player seasons played different teams national_league season seasons players league season held single season record doubles home runs record doubles surpassed held home run record topped boston_red_sox best era years career led league position fielding percentage double plays times led position assists times later moved shortstop led league assists double plays career shortened knee injury suffered paris world tour organized left organized baseball health declined rapidly contracted tuberculosis ultimately died age career born philadelphia began major league career indianapolis blues national_league season played team games starting baseman leading league category umpired game august calling game providence season ending statistics included batting average home run runs scored blues major league team season resulting joining season regular baseman leading league multiple fielding categories position including fielding percentage assists double plays hitter numbers improved finished second league triples eighth doubles raising batting average seasons batting statistics fluctuated year year batting average rose likewise doubles good seventh league dropped followed season fourth league time period level hitting dropped play field led league fielding percentage assists set major league record doubles single season hitting surpassing king kelly set previous year record doubles stood tip hit doubles achievement attributed short dimensions chicago park distances feet left field feet center field feet right field balls hit fence counted doubles home runs september chicago scored record runs inning victory contributed hits scored runs inning setting individual records categories runs scored team records set day included hits total bases inning time period establishment ground rules park rested home team team captain field manager decided balls hit fence home runs short dimensions new ground rules set single season home run record hitting game season surpassing record set previous year home runs hit year hit home record stood years broken hit boston_red_sox game schedule home runs came second game major league baseball player hit home runs game record breaking seasons fielding prowess lead league fielding percentage lead assists streak consecutive years leading league double plays second consecutive years season moved power numbers dropped short fences home run total dropped doubles went batting average dropped lowest average white despite low hitting numbers lead league games played bases balls led position assists double plays fifth time fielding percentage chicago won national_league championship season agreed play champions seven game world series game began players teams held field day included contests skill won long throw toss traveled feet inches series ended tie team won games game ended tie collected base hits bats batting average scored run beginning switched fielding position shortstop won national_league championship fifth seven years team success coincide slide seasonal numbers batting average dropped career low strikeouts jumped career high bats finish bases balls met following season agreed play best seven world series second consecutive year won series games statistics series improve fact worse gathered base hit bats batting average scored runs second season shortstop season majors numbers began climb early career batting average jumped hit doubles triples base balls home runs batting average time finish fourth league rbis base balls field led league assists double plays world tour completion baseball season organized world tour promote game baseball teams selected collection players national_league teams tour departed october play exhibition games western united_states month departing hawaii tour visited foreign countries australia egypt ceylon sri_lanka france italy england game played paris france march suffered torn knee cap forced england doctor orders missing tour britain players 19th century responsible medical care asked help financially mounting medical costs refused citing assist baseball contemporaries wrote colorful articles newspapers tour 1880s teammate chicago fun teammates coming good testament letters significance dominant source recent book presentation portrayed movie depicts life world tour late career death injury knee caused career suffer played games season batted hits season extra base hits joined season final major league season played games hitting spring traveled arkansas hopes recover liver lose weight treatments work died march year age arkansas complicated consumption tuberculosis interred unmarked grave chicago
Ned Williamson