Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — Ex-Baseball Expert Dead. [ARTICLE]

Ex-Baseball Expert Dead.

New York. Aug. 21. —Dr. Albert J. Bushong, famous as a baseball catcher when a member of the St, Louis Browns and the Brooklyn teams, is dead at his home in Brooklyn. Bushong was born In Philadelphia fiftytwo years ago. and in the eighties vied with “King” Kelly for first honors as a backstop. .