George Bristow (baseball)

George Bristow

Outfielder
Born: May 13, 1870(1870-05-13)
Paw Paw, Illinois
Died: October 17, 1939(1939-10-17) (aged 69)
Bellingham, Washington
Batted: Unknown Threw: Right 
MLB debut
April 15, 1899 for the Cleveland Spiders
Last MLB appearance
May 8, 1899 for the Cleveland Spiders
Career statistics
Games played     3
Batting average     .125
Doubles     1
Teams

George Gates Bristow (May 13, 1870 – October 17, 1939) was a professional baseball player. He played three games as an outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Spiders in 1899. Bristow was 5 feet, 10 inches, and weighed 170 pounds.[1]

Career

Bristow was born in Paw Paw, Illinois, in 1870. He started his professional baseball career in 1894.[2] In 1895, Bristow was a pitcher and captain for the Texas-Southern League's Galveston Sandcrabs. He won 23 consecutive games that year, breaking Jack Luby's "world's record" of 20.[3] Bristow, who played second base while not pitching, also had a batting average of .341 in 89 games.[4]

Bristow spent most of the following season playing for the Newark Colts of the Atlantic League. In 52 games there, he batted .324 and had a 10-7 win–loss record as a pitcher. Bristow then had one-year stints in the Texas League and Southwestern League before being acquired by the National League's Cleveland Spiders in early 1899.[2][5] He made his major league debut on April 15 against pitcher Cy Young, going hitless.[1][6] On April 21, he sprained his ankle and had to leave the game.[7] Bristow's third appearance came on May 8, when he replaced an ejected Lave Cross. Bristow doubled in that game for his first and only major league hit.[8] Later that month, he was released to the Western League's Kansas City Blues and never appeared in the majors again.[2][6]

For the next few years, Bristow played in the minors. He batted .251 in the Western League in 1900 before moving on to the Iowa-South Dakota League, Pacific National League, Pacific Coast League, and Northwestern League, where he was a player-manager in 1905.[2]

Bristow's professional baseball career ended in 1906.[2] He died in Bellingham, Washington, in 1939, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "George Bristow Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e "George Bristow Minor League Statistics & History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
  3. ^ "League Thriving". Sporting Life. August 3, 1895. p. 11.
  4. ^ "Texas League". Sporting Life. September 28, 1895. p. 12.
  5. ^ Hetrick, J. Thomas (1999). Misfits! Baseball's Worst Ever Team. Pocol Press. p. 16.
  6. ^ a b Hetrick, p. 166.
  7. ^ Hetrick, p. 27.
  8. ^ Hetrick, p. 40.

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