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John Montgomery Ward
John Montgomery Ward (March 3, 1860 – March 4, 1925), known as Monte Ward, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, shortstop and manager.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Montgomery Ward's managerial statistics )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Montgomery Ward's career statistics )〕 Ward was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Renovo, Pennsylvania.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Simply Baseball Notebook: Legends ) 〕 He led the formation of the first professional sports players union and a new baseball league, the Players' League.
== Early life ==
Ward attended the Bellefonte Academy in the early 1870s and, at 13 years of age, he was sent to Pennsylvania State University. In his short time there, he helped jumpstart a baseball program and is often credited for developing the first curveball. However, he was kicked out of school for pushing an upperclassman who attempted to haze him down a flight of stairs and stealing chickens.〔
The following year, in 1874, his parents James and Ruth〔http://www.ancestry.com 1860, 1870 US Federal Census Bellefonte, Centre, Pennsylvania 1860 Child Montgomery born Mar 1960.〕 died. He tried to make it as a travelling salesman, but when that proved unsuccessful, he returned to his hometown. It was there that he re-discovered baseball.〔 In , the semi-pro team that he was playing for folded, which opened the door for him to move on to a new opportunity. He was offered a contract to pitch for the Providence Grays of the still new National League, an all professional major league that had begun its operations in .〔
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