Charlie Hoover
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Charles E. Hoover
- Bats Left, Throws Right
- Height 5' 8"
- Debut October 9, 1888
- Final Game September 28, 1889
- Born September 21, 1865 in Mound City, IL USA
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Charlie Hoover came up at the end of the 1888 season with Kansas City, and then became the regular catcher for the 1889 Kansas City Cowboys. He was the same age, 23, as teammates Herman Long and Billy Hamilton.
"Charlie Hoover, the catcher of the Lincoln Base Ball Club . . . was sent to jail two weeks ago . . . for attempting to shoot a hackman. . . He has been a popular player in the Western League. . . Since his success in the League and his signing with Chicago he has been on a celebration the greater part of the time." - Sporting Life, Dec. 28, 1887
"Comiskey is sufficiently hard up for a catcher to take chances with an unreliable man, notwithstanding costly experience. He is trying Charlie Hoover, the ill-tempered and bibulously inclined ex-Kansas City catcher." - Sporting Life, April 8, 1893
In 1898, apparently while drunk, he and another person forged a check, and were sent to prison. He was pardoned in 1902. Source: Sporting Life, May 17, 1902.
