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Edward Nagle Williamson (October 24, 1857 - March 3, 1894) was a Major League baseball player for the Indianapolis Blues (1878), Chicago White Stockings (1879-1889), and Chicago Pirates (1890). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Williamson died at the age of 35 of dropsy complicated by consumption in Willow Springs, Arkansas. He was laid to rest at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.

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  • Edward Nagle Williamson (October 24, 1857 - March 3, 1894) was a Major League baseball player for the Indianapolis Blues (1878), Chicago White Stockings (1879-1889), and Chicago Pirates (1890). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Williamson died at the age of 35 of dropsy complicated by consumption in Willow Springs, Arkansas. He was laid to rest at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.
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  • Edward Nagle Williamson (October 24, 1857 - March 3, 1894) was a Major League baseball player for the Indianapolis Blues (1878), Chicago White Stockings (1879-1889), and Chicago Pirates (1890). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1883, Williamson set the single season double record with 49 using the short dimensions of Chicago's Lakeshore Park, which fences were 180' in left field, 300' in center field, and 196' in right field. If a ball was hit over the fence it was counted as a double until 1884, which it then became a home run. His doubles record stood until Tip O'Neill of the St. Louis Browns hit 52 in 1887. In 1884, Williamson set the single season home run record with 27 in a 112-game season, besting the record of 14 set by Harry Stovey the previous year. This record stood for thirty-five years, finally topped by Babe Ruth in 1919, when he hit 29 for the Boston Red Sox in a 140 game schedule. On May 30 of that year, he became the first major league baseball player to hit 3 home runs in one game. Historians look upon Williamson's records skeptically, due to those all-too-friendly dimensions of Lakeshore Park. Williamson hit 25 of his 27 home runs in Chicago (the other 2 were in Buffalo). Many historians did not know of the shortened fence, and he actually received some support for the Hall of Fame in the 1950s. Williamson died at the age of 35 of dropsy complicated by consumption in Willow Springs, Arkansas. He was laid to rest at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.
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