Jack Dalton
From BR Bullpen
Tolbert Percy Dalton
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 10½", Weight 145 lb.
- School University of Virginia
- Debut June 20, 1910
- Final Game May 17, 1916
- Born July 3, 1885 in Henderson, TN USA
- Died February 17, 1950 in Pittsburgh, PA USA
[edit] Biographical Information
For a number of years Jack Dalton was one of the few 20th Century major leaguers whose whereabouts or date of death were not known. Dalton disappeared from Emmitsburg, Maryland in the early summer of 1948 and never again made contact with any of his associates or relatives. At the time of his disappearance, he was a part-time preacher for the Columbia Primitive Baptist Church in Burtonsville, MD; he disappeared on July 4, 1948, a Sunday morning, leaving home to attend a church service, but never arrived there and was never heard from again. He was listed as a missing person by the state of Maryland. In 2012, researchers using death records newly opened to the public by the state of Pennsylvania determined that Dalton died of a heart ailment in Allegheny Memorial Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA on February 17, 1950.
[edit] Further Reading
- "Jack Dalton Found", in Bill Carle, ed.: Biographical Research Committee Report, SABR, March/April 2012, p. 1.
