Marty Hogan

For the championship racquetball player, see Marty Hogan (racquetball).

Marty Hogan
Outfielder
Born: (1869-10-25)October 25, 1869
Wednesbury, England
Died: August 15, 1923(1923-08-15) (aged 53)
Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 6, 1894, for the Cincinnati Reds
Last MLB appearance
April 24, 1895, for the St. Louis Browns
MLB statistics
Batting average.241
Home runs0
Runs batted in18
Teams

Martin Francis Hogan (October 25, 1869 – August 15, 1923), nicknamed "the Indianapolis Ringer", was an English born right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1894) and St. Louis Browns (1894–1895). After leaving the National League, Hogan moved on to the minor league Indianapolis Hoosiers. Some sources suggest he set a national baserunning record in the 1890s.[1][2][3][4][5]

When his playing career ended, he worked as a minor league baseball manager in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. As a manager, Hogan groomed several pitchers who excelled in the major leagues. He signed future stars Stan Coveleski and Sam Jones to their first professional contracts[6] and helped launch the career of Roy Castleton, the first native of Utah to play in the major leagues.[6]

In 1912, Hogan was among a select group of veteran managers invited to participate in the United States Baseball League, which was treated by the baseball establishment as an "outlaw league".[7][8] For reasons that are unclear, he did not actually manage a franchise in the short-lived alternative league[9] and resumed his career as a minor league manager. Hogan eventually settled in his adopted hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, where he died in 1923.

  1. ^ "Death Takes Marty Hogan: Baseball Star Succumbs After Long Illness--Hurt in Auto Crash". The Youngstown Daily Vindicator. 17 August 1923.
  2. ^ Daly, Jon. "Evar Swanson". Society for American Baseball Research. Archived from the original on 13 July 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2008.
  3. ^ The Baltimore Sun Almanac for 1909 (Baltimore, Maryland: A. S. Abell Co., 1909), p. 200.
  4. ^ The World Almanac and Encyclopedia 1906 (New York: Press Publishing Co., 1905), p. 277.
  5. ^ "Ohio-Pennsylvania". Sporting Life. 6 January 1906. p. 2.
  6. ^ a b Lammers, Craig. "Roy Castleton". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved 4 March 2007.
  7. ^ "New York Not Yet Named In Outlaw League". The New York Times. 16 March 1912.
  8. ^ Haerle, Rudolf K. "The United States Baseball League of 1912: A Case Study of Organizational Failure" (PDF). LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
  9. ^ "New U.S. League Managers: Four Former Major Leagues' Players to Direct Clubs in Young Organization". The New York Times. 18 April 1912.