Dan Brouthers
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Dennis Joseph "Dan" Brouthers was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball whose career spanned the period from 1879 to 1896, with a brief return in 1904. Nicknamed "Big Dan" for his size, h
Brouthers in 1887
Tobacco card of Brouthers from 1888
Dan Brouthers of the Boston Players League team, 1887. Michael T. "Nuf Ced" McGreevy Collection, Boston Public Library.
Plaque of Brouthers at the Baseball Hall of Fame
The original Buffalo Bisons baseball club played in the National League between 1879 and 1885. The Bisons played their games at Riverside Park and Olympic Park in Buffalo, New York. In 1886, they move
Dan Brouthers
…played for a minor league team in Rochester, New York, and on one occasion in 1880, he hit a game-winning home run in an exhibition game versus the Buffalo Bisons, off future Hall of Fame pitcher Pud Galvin. He hit well enough in the minors to get another shot with the Trojans, which lasted just three games when…
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