Roger Bresnahan was a member of the 1905 World Series champions.
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40 Facts About Roger Bresnahan
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Roger Bresnahan served as an outfielder, before becoming a regular catcher.
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Roger Bresnahan popularized the use of protective equipment in baseball by introducing shin guards, to be worn by catchers, in 1907.
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Roger Bresnahan owned the minor league Toledo Mud Hens and coached for the Giants and Detroit Tigers.
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Roger Bresnahan was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 by the Veterans Committee.
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Roger Bresnahan was the seventh child of Michael and Mary Bresnahan, who had immigrated to the United States from Tralee, Ireland.
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Roger Bresnahan used to claim that he was from Tralee, and early in his life, he earned the nickname "The Duke of Tralee".
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Roger Bresnahan began playing baseball in grade school, becoming one of the best known sandlot baseball players.
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Roger Bresnahan continued to play baseball at Toledo's Central High School.
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At 16, Roger Bresnahan signed with a semi-professional team from Manistee, Michigan.
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Roger Bresnahan played for the Toledo Mud Hens of the Interstate League and the Minneapolis Millers of the Western League in 1898, and the Millers and Buffalo Bisons of the Western League in 1899.
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Roger Bresnahan appeared in two games at catcher for the Chicago Orphans of the NL in 1900, which served as a tryout.
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Roger Bresnahan shifted to catcher full-time in 1905, as Bowerman became less effective and Warner left the Giants.
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Roger Bresnahan caught all five games in the 1905 World Series, including three shutouts by Mathewson, and one shutout thrown by Joe McGinnity.
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Roger Bresnahan had a memory almost as good as [Christy] Mathweson or [Joe] McGinnity.
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Roger Bresnahan practiced in shin guards that are worn in cricket during spring training, and debuted them on April 11,1907.
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Roger Bresnahan was hit in the head with a pitch by Andy Coakley of the Cincinnati Reds on June 18,1907.
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Roger Bresnahan was unconscious, and a Catholic priest read him his last rites.
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Roger Bresnahan was hospitalized for ten days, during which time he developed schematics for a plastic batting helmet, though this piece of equipment did not become commonplace until the 1940s.
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Roger Bresnahan was the first catcher to wear a padded facemask while catching.
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Roger Bresnahan led the Cardinals, who won only 49 games in 1908, to 54 wins in 1909 and 63 wins in 1910.
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23.
Roger Bresnahan eventually settled the lawsuit against Britton for $20,000.
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Roger Bresnahan signed a three-year contract with the Cubs, receiving $10,000 per season with a $25,000 signing bonus.
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Roger Bresnahan served as player-manager for the Cubs in 1915, but was released when his batting average slipped.
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Roger Bresnahan played for the team until 1918, when he announced his retirement.
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Roger Bresnahan played for a semi-professional team in 1919, and appeared in five games for the Mud Hens in 1921.
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Roger Bresnahan worked to add lights to Toledo's stadium, so that they could play night games.
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Roger Bresnahan worked as a hotel detective at the Boody House, which he later purchased.
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Roger Bresnahan lost much of his money in the stock market crash of 1929.
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Roger Bresnahan worked as a manual laborer, as a guard at the Toledo Workhouse, and as a salesman for Toledo's Buckeye Brewing Company.
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Roger Bresnahan ran for sheriff of Lucas County as a member of the Democratic Party in 1932.
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Roger Bresnahan lost, and endorsed the victorious candidate in his reelection bid two years later.
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Roger Bresnahan ran for county commissioner in 1944, winning the Democratic Party nomination, but losing in the general election by a few hundred votes out of 140,000 votes cast.
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Roger Bresnahan died of a heart attack at his home in Toledo on December 4,1944 at the age of 65.
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Roger Bresnahan was survived by his wife, Gertrude, and his daughter, Marian.
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Roger Bresnahan was described as "highly strung and almost abnormally emotional" by a reporter.
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Roger Bresnahan was elected to the Hall of Fame the year after his death.
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Roger Bresnahan had received 47 votes of the 226 electors in the 1936 Hall of Fame balloting, and between 43 and 67 votes each time from 1937 through 1942.
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Roger Bresnahan was mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash:.
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