Roger Connor was a 19th-century Major League Baseball player.
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42 Facts About Roger Connor
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Roger Connor was the player whom Babe Ruth succeeded as the all-time career home run champion.
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Roger Connor owned and managed minor league baseball teams after his playing days.
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Roger Connor was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by its Veterans Committee in 1976.
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Largely forgotten after his retirement, Roger Connor was buried in an unmarked grave until a group of citizens raised money for a grave marker in 2001.
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Roger Connor was the son of Irish immigrants Mortimer Connor and Catherine Sullivan Connor.
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Roger Connor's father had arrived in the United States only five years before Roger's birth.
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Roger Connor was the third of eleven children born to the family, though two did not survive childhood.
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Roger Connor left school around age 12 to work with his father at the local brass works.
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Roger Connor entered professional baseball with the Waterbury Monitors of the Eastern League in 1876.
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Roger Connor committed 60 errors in 83 games and sustained a shoulder injury, prompting a position change to first baseman for 1881.
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Roger Connor later played for the New York Gothams, and, due to his great stature, gave that team the enduring nickname "Giants".
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Roger Connor hit baseball's first grand slam on September 10,1881, at Riverfront Park in Rensselaer, New York.
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On September 11,1886, Roger Connor hit a ball completely out of the Polo Grounds, a very difficult park in which to hit home runs.
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Roger Connor hit the pitch from Boston's Old Hoss Radbourn over the right field fence and onto 112th Street.
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Roger Connor's home run total led the league and it represented the only major league single-season home run title that he won.
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Roger Connor experimented with some changes to his batting style that year.
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Roger Connor hit more balls to the opposite field and he sometimes batted right-handed, though he did not have much success from the right side.
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Roger Connor was optimistic that the league would be successful in 1891, but it officially broke up that January.
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Roger Connor returned to the Giants in 1893, raising his average to.
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Roger Connor was released that year and picked up by the St Louis Browns.
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Roger Connor's career mark of 138 was a benchmark not surpassed until 1921 by Babe Ruth.
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Roger Connor finished in the top ten in batting average ten times, all between 1880 and 1891.
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Over an 18-year career, Roger Connor finished in the top ten for doubles ten times, finished in the top three for triples seven times and remains fifth all-time in triples with 233.
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Roger Connor established his power credentials by finishing in the top ten in RBI ten times and top ten in homers twelve times.
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Roger Connor interpreted the baby's death as God's punishment for marrying Angeline, who was not Catholic.
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Angeline had secretly begun receiving Catholic education and was planning to surprise Roger Connor by getting baptized on the day that Lulu would have turned a year old.
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Roger Connor signed with the Fall River Indians of the New England League in June 1897.
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Roger Connor attracted some attention by wearing eyeglasses on the field.
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Roger Connor hit cleanup, played first base and was popular among fans.
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In 1898, Roger Connor moved back to his hometown of Waterbury and purchased the local minor league team.
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Roger Connor served as president, manager and played first base on the side.
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Joe Roger Connor was the team's catcher; he later returned to the major leagues for several seasons.
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In 1901, Roger Connor became interested in purchasing the minor league franchise in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Roger Connor proposed that he might purchase the team and attempt to have it admitted to the Connecticut State League, decreasing its travel requirements.
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In September 1903, Roger Connor announced his retirement from baseball and placed his team up for sale.
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Roger Connor had made a similar statement the year before and apparently on a frequent basis before that.
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Roger Connor worked as a school inspector in Waterbury until 1920.
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Roger Connor lived to see his career home run record bested by Babe Ruth, although if it was celebrated, it might have been on the wrong day.
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At one time, Roger Connor's record was thought to be 131, per the Sporting News book Daguerreotypes.
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Roger Connor died on January 4,1931, following a lengthy stomach illness.
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