Henry D Ramsey Information?

[Matt]

Does anyone have any information on a 19th century player named Henry D. Ramsey? He later was a minor league manager for about 16 years and that information is available in the SABR database, but I can't find any player records for him. In the book "Chasing Moonlight" they mention that "...Henry D. Ramsey, a long-time minor league player and manager..."

In addition to his playing records, if anyone has any info about DOB/DOD or where he lived post-baseball that would be appreciated.

thanks in advance for your time.

[Matt]

Nobody has any additional information on him? He was the first president of the Hudson River League if that helps...

[frohme]

Hey Matt,

Looks like he (Hank) was born in 1869 passed away in 1917 - here's a tinyURL link to the article in the Auburn Citizen (Feb, 1917). (Full link)

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Mike

[Matt]

Mike - that's fantastic and a fascinating read! He "found" Honus?

What kind of search turned up that article? I went several pages deep with Google and didn't see it.

Thanks again!

[frohme]

Hi Matt,

Had a full reply drafted and Firefox crashed..argh. It took a while, but found reference to him going by Hank in an old Sporting Life article (if I recall) - I had wondered if he might, but was too engrossed in reading to do the search.

I had written more, but ... anyway references were drying up around 1915 - I think his mgr career was done about then) and ultimately the search for "Hank Ramsey" manager 1915 (then 1916 1917) turned up that article - that last search only had 17 hits.

The Honus reference was very cool. There also may be a reference to his playing days, as there are games stats from an A-J-G team (per the obit article) playing Utica in Sporting Life (I don't recall the year/issue) - I think Ramsey was a pitcher.

Getting to spend the morning going through some old Sporting Life and Baseball Mag issues, well that was just gravy.

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Mike

[Matt]

Thanks - using that search I was also able to locate this account of his obit.

"Word was received In this city today
of the burial in Paterson. N. J., yesterday
of Henry "Hank" Ramsey, a former
baseball manager. Identified for many
seasons with the New York State Base-
Ball League. Ramsey died in a sanitarium
at Morris Plains, N. J., last week.
He was born In Paterson Sept. 13, 1869.

Ramsey entered base-ball upward of
21 years ago, managing the Pateraon
club;—Later he helped organize the
Hudson River League, where he managed
tho Newburg and Kingston clubs.
He then turned his attention to the New
York State circuit, playing a -very important,
part in the formation of the
League which to-day stands as the oldest
minor league in the country. In the
???? wheel Ramsey managed at Altoona,
Utica. Elmira, Scranton and Troy,
and invariably he had his team- at the
top fighting tooth and nail for the honors."

[maryrhodes505]

Researching something entirely different, I found that Hank Ramsey was hired as the Manager of the Wellsville NY Interstate League in 1916. I was trying to find out who he was when I found this post. There is very little information on him in our 1916 newspapers, a few articles saying that he hired a few players for the team...you can search the Wellsville NY newspapers thru the David A Howe Library, newspapers are searchable on line.

[Matt]

Resurrected from the depths! I might as well include a link to the card which sparked my initial question:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showpos...0&postcount=17