Everything about Bob Ferguson Baseball totally explained
Robert Vavasour Ferguson (
January 31 1845 –
May 3 1894) was an
American infielder, league official,
manager and
umpire in the early days of
baseball, playing both before and after baseball became a professional sport. In addition to playing and managing, he served as president of the
National Association of Professional Base Ball Players from through, the sport's first entirely professional league. His character and unquestioned honesty was highly regarded during a period in baseball history where the game's reputation was badly damaged by gamblers and rowdy behavior by players and fans. However, his bad temper and stubbornness were traits that created trouble for him at times during his career, and caused him to be disliked by many. was derived from his greatness as a defensive player.
Early career
A native of
Brooklyn, Ferguson played for two of New York's earliest semi-professional clubs in the late 1860s and early 1870s: the
Atlantics, and
Mutuals. Among the explanations for this claimed that due to his personality, players didn't want to emulate Ferguson. Team discipline did improve in his first season, but his overbearing ways proved divisive, causing the team to bicker amongst themselves. Ferguson's temper would flair up often, even when the team was winning.
Ferguson again moved on, this time accepting the player-manager role with the new
Troy Trojans team who began their time in the National League in 1879, and would stay in that role until the team folded after the season.
Post-career
Ferguson died in Brooklyn of
apoplexy at the age of 49. Initially buried in
Evergreen Cemetery, he was later reinterred in
Cypress Hills Cemetery, also in the borough of Brooklyn.
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