Bill Leinhauser
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William Charles Leinhauser
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 10", Weight 150 lb.
- Debut May 18, 1912
- Final Game May 18, 1912
- Born November 4, 1893 in Philadelphia, PA USA
- Died April 14, 1978 in Elkins Park, PA USA
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On 18 May 1912, the Detroit Tigers players protested Ty Cobb's suspension and voted to strike. Faced with a $5,000 fine for failing to field a team, club owner Frank Navin orders manager Hughie Jennings to sign up some local amateurs. Bill Leinhauser, Allan Travers, Dan McGarvey, Billy Maharg (whose real name was Graham, "Maharg" reversed), Jim McGarr, Vincent Maney, Jack Coffey, Hap Ward and Ed Irvin put on Tiger uniforms. Two Detroit coaches, Joe Sugden, 41, and Jim McGuire, 48, complete the lineup, and score the only two runs for Detroit. The Philadelphia Athletics win 24–2, as Travers goes all the way, giving up 26 hits and 24 runs in eight innings. The only recruit to hit for Detroit is Irvin.
His one day baseball career over, and his days as a noted amateur welterweight boxer coming to an end, he became a policeman. He served in France for the U. S. Army during World War I (BN). He retired as captain of the North Central Detective Division of the Philadelphia, PA Police Department in 1959 after 41 years, 29 in the narcotics squad. He died at age 84 at Rolling Hill Hospital in Elkins Park, PA and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, PA.
[edit] Sources
Principal sources for Bill Leinhauser include newspaper obituaries (OB), government records (VA,CM,CW), Sporting Life (SL), Baseball Digest, The Sporting News (TSN), The Sports Encyclopedia:Baseball 2006 by David Neft & Richard Cohen (N&C), old Who's Who in Baseballs (none) (WW), old Baseball Registers (none) (BR), TSN's Daguerreotypes (none) (DAG), The Historical Register, The Baseball Necrology by Bill Lee (BN), Pat Doyle's Professional Ballplayer DataBase(PD), The Baseball Library (BL); various Encyclopediae including The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball by Turkin & Thompson (T&T), MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia (Mac), Total Baseball (TB), The Bill James Historical Abstract (BJ) and The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (LJ); Retrosheet (RS), The Baseball Chronology (BC), Baseball Page (BP), The Baseball Almanac (BA), Baseball Cube (B3) and obituaries at deadballera.com (DBE) as well as research by Reed Howard (RH), Pat Doyle (PD) and Frank Hamilton (FH).
