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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Bert Weeden, Billy Lush (baseball), Billy Taylor (1880s pitcher), Bill Carrick, Bill Crowley (baseball), Bill Friel, Bill Stuart, Bob Ganley, Bob Hall (outfielder), Chippy McGarr, Cozy Dolan, Dan Phelan, Dasher Troy, Dick Burns, Ed Flanagan (baseball), Ed Glenn (shortstop), Ed Lennox, Elmer Zacher, Frank Bettger, Frank Brill, Frank Burke (baseball), Frank Murphy (baseball), Freddy Parent, George Bone, George Hemming, George Hodson, Hack Simmons, Ham Wade, Harry Colliflower, Ira Davis, Jack Hannifin, Jack Leary, Jim Canavan, Jim Donnelly (baseball), Jim Duggan (baseball), Jim Halpin, Joe Martin (outfielder), John Brown (baseball), John Deering (baseball), John Fitzgerald (Boston Reds pitcher), John Pappalau, Larry Battam, Leo Fishel, Mike Hickey, Oscar Westerberg, Pat Duff, Pat Paige, Pete LePine, Pete Weckbecker, Red Owens (baseball), Roger Connor, Tad Quinn, Tom Doran, Tom Tuckey, Willie Murphy (baseball). Excerpt: William Lucas "Billy" Lush (November 10, 1873 - August 28, 1951) was an American baseball player and college athletics coach and administrator. He played seven seasons of Major League Baseball from 1895 to 1904, including three with the Washington Senators. He later worked as a college athletics coach (mostly baseball and basketball) at Yale University, Columbia University, Fordham University, the United States Naval Academy, St. John's University, the University of Baltimore and Trinity College, Hartford. He also held athletic director positions at Fordham and the Naval Academy. In the 1930s, he coached athletic teams at Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York. Lush was born at Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1873. His father, Charles H. Lush, was a Massachusetts native who worked in a sewing machine factory. At the time of the 1880 United States Census, Lush, at age 7, was living in Bridgeport with his...