Frank Ringo

Frank Ringo
Catcher
Born: (1860-10-12)October 12, 1860
Parkville, Missouri
Died: April 12, 1889(1889-04-12) (aged 28)
Kansas City, Missouri
Batted: Right
Threw: Unknown
MLB debut
May 1, 1883, for the Philadelphia Quakers
Last MLB appearance
September 18, 1886, for the Kansas City Cowboys
MLB statistics
Batting average.192
Home runs0
Runs batted in32
Teams

Frank C. Ringo (October 12, 1860 – April 12, 1889) was a professional baseball player from 1880 to 1888. He played four seasons of Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Quakers (1883–84), Philadelphia Athletics (1884), Detroit Wolverines (1885), Pittsburgh Alleghenys (1885–86), and Kansas City Cowboys (1886). He committed suicide by morphine overdose in April 1889 at age 28. His suicide is the earliest by a major league baseball player to be recorded in the Baseball Almanac.