Allan Travers is the only Catholic priest to have played major league baseball.
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13 Facts About Allan Travers
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Allan Travers does hold the two negative records for American League play.
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Each man was paid $25; Allan Travers took on the role of pitcher upon learning that the position would pay $50.
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Allan Travers had even been unable to make the school's varsity baseball team.
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Yet on May 18,1912, Allan Travers became a starting pitcher in a major league baseball game, walking out onto the mound in front of 15,000 Philadelphia fans at Shibe Park to face the two-time defending World Series champions.
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Under these unlikely circumstances, Allan Travers pitched the sport's most unlikely complete game, allowing 26 hits, 24 runs, 14 earned runs, 7 walks and one strikeout.
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Allan Travers never played again in the major leagues, preserving his career ERA at 15.
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Years, Allan Travers was reluctant to speak about his day as a major league ball player.
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Allan Travers recalled being asked to round up "as many fellows as I could find" to play for the Tigers.
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Allan Travers is the only priest to have played major league baseball.
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Allan Travers taught at St Francis Xavier High School in Manhattan and was later named Dean of Men at St Joseph College.
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Allan Travers lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for almost all of his life.
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