Ted Lewis (baseball player)

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Edward Morgan Lewis (b. Wednesday, December 25, 1872, in Machynlleth, Wales)

Nick-named The Pitching Professor, Ted Lewis was the first of only two Welsh-born players to break into major league baseball in the U.S. (the other being Jimmy Austin. He was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 6, 1896, with the Boston Beaneaters, the first player from Wales ever to do so. After the 1901 season, he retired from baseball to teach full-time at Columbia University and later at Williams College. He became a prominent educator, eventually serving as president of Massachusetts State College, 1926-27, and the University of New Hampshire from 1927 until his death in Durham, New Hampshire on 23rd May 1936. He is buried in Durham Cemetery.