Willard Hershberger
Willard McKee Hershberger
- Nick Name: Hershie
American
Willard Hershberger was an American Major League Baseball player who was good humored and highly popular with his fellow players according to The Sporting News. - AsNotedIn
Willard Hershberger was an American Major League Baseball player who was good humored and highly popular with his fellow players according to The Sporting News. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1910/05/28 | Willard McKee Hershberger is born the son of Claude Hershberger in Lemon Cove, California. | Born | Lemon Cove | California | |||
| 1928/11/21 | After being awoken by a gun shot, Willard Hershberger finds the lifeless body of his father, Claude, on the family home's bathroom floor. Claude had killed himself with his son's shotgun. | Life | |||||
| 1937/00/00 | Willard Hershberger is traded to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for shortstop Eddie Miller. | Vocation | |||||
| 1939/00/00 | During his second year in US Major League Baseball, Willard Hershberger maintains a .345 hitting average in 174 at bats over 63 games. | Vocation | |||||
| 1940/07/27 | During a Cincinnati Reds lose to the Philadelphia Phillies, Hershberger makes zero hits during four attempts a batting. | Vocation | |||||
| 1940/07/31 | Although leading by three runs, the Reds lose to the New York Giants when pitcher Bucky Walters, the reigning NL Most Valuable Player, gives up two walks and two two-run home runs in the last inning. Hershberger is inconsolable. | Vocation | |||||
| 1940/07/31 | On the train from New York to Boston, Hershberger tells teammate Billy Werber, "I called for the wrong pitches. If Ernie (Red's catcher Ernie Lombardi) had been in there, we wouldn't have lost. I've let the team down." | Vocation | |||||
| 1940/08/02 | During the second game of a double header against the Boston Bees, Willard Hershberger plays in a trance like state, getting no hits in 5 attempts. That night he cries uncontrollably in the suite of the Reds' manager, Bill McKechnie. | Vocation | Copley Plaza Hotel | Boston | |||
| 1940/08/03 | Willard Hershberger meticulously lays towels, wall to wall, on the bathroom floor of his room at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. and commits suicide with a used single-edge blade that he had taken from his roommate's safety razor. | Died | Copley Plaza Hotel | Boston | |||
| 1940/10/06 | The Detroit Tigers beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-0 in the sixth game of the Baseball World Series. Having dedicating themselves to winning the World Series "for Hershie", the Reds players look forward to the final game against the Tigers in Cincinnati. | In Memoriam | The Corner Ballpark | Detroit | |||
| 1940/10/08 | The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, defeating the Detroit Tigers in game seven at Crosley Field (lost) in Cincinnati. The Reds' will vote for Hershberger to receive a full share of the award and send a check for $5,083.62 to his mother in California | In Memoriam |
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