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Gus Alberts

Gus Alberts

American baseball player (1860–1912)


August Peterson Alberts (September 1860 – May 7, 1912) was an American infielder in Major League Baseball from 1884 to 1891. He played for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys (1884), Cleveland Blues (1888), and the Milwaukee Brewers (1891) of the American Association and very briefly for the Washington Nationals of the Union Association (1884). Alberts threw and batted right-handed. He was 5'6 ½" and 180 lbs.[1]

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In 120 games he batted .197 (84-for-426) and scored 62 runs. An average third baseman and shortstop for the times, he had a fielding percentage of .867. Of the 120 appearances, 102 of those games were with the Cleveland Blues in 1888. With them, he had a .206 batting average and 26 stolen bases.

Alberts was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He died suddenly at the age of 52 near the Brunswick Flats area in Idaho Springs, Colorado.[2] He had resided in Alice, Idaho Springs, when he suddenly became ill with pneumonia and was taken to Idaho Springs to recuperate. Alberts ventured onto the streets just an hour before dying and was ordered to return inside by a physician. He worked in the mines known as the Chesapeake group which were located between Alice and St. Mary. He was employed by the Clara Exploration and Development Company. He was interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.[3]


References

  1. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14000 Famous Persons by Scott Wilson
  • The Idaho Springs Siftings-News, Idaho Springs, Colorado, Saturday, May 11, 1912
  • The 1996 MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia Digital Edition

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