Kid Nichols Death Cause and Date

Kid Nichols' Death

Born (Birthday) Sep 14, 1869

Death Date April 11, 1953

Age of Death 83 years

Cause of Death N/A

Profession Baseball Player

The baseball player Kid Nichols died at the age of 83. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Hall of Fame pitcher who was one of the most dominant of his era and the youngest, for the time, to earn 300 wins. He spent the bulk of his career with the Boston Beaneaters, the franchise that would later become the Atlanta Braves.

He was born in Madison, Wisconsin, his father was a butcher and his step-brothers local amateur baseball players.

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“In 1906, I developed pleurisy and was unable to get into condition. So I asked for my release and obtained it. So ended my Major League career.” (Kid Nichols)

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“The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.” (Kid Nichols)

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“If the arm got sore, we went out and pitched until the soreness left – we had to, or we would have been dropped from the team. Nothing short of a broken leg could have kept us out of uniform.” (Kid Nichols)

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“We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy – not for the money, but for the glory of winning.” (Kid Nichols)

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