3B-1B 1880, 82-91 Buffalo (NL), Cleveland (NL), New York (AA), New York (NL), Indianapolis (NL), Louisville (AA), Brooklyn (NL)
Manager in 1889 Louisville (AA)
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FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY
»December 20, 1885: The St. Louis Maroons announce that Jerry Denny, Dude Esterbrook, Paul Hines, and George Myers are to play for them in 1886. Denny and Myers do so, but Esterbrook stays with the Giants and Hines goes to the newly formed Washington Nationals.
»January 12, 1887: The Metropolitan club buys Dude Esterbrook from the New York club. Although the Mets are no longer owned by the Giants' management, the Giants still seem to get the best of every deal between the two clubs.
»April 30, 1901:
Thomas "Dude" Esterbrook, a star in the 1880s with the Mets, dies in a fall from a moving train. Esterbrook is on his way to a mental hospital in Middlebrook, NY when he squeezes through a lavatory window and falls to the rail bed below.
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