HACK WILSON
Robert Lewis "Hack" Wilson was born on April 26, 1900 in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. He moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1921 to play baseball for the Class D Martinsburg Mountaineer. His first Major League game was in 1923 and during his 11 year his Major League Career he played for the New York Giants, Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. He retired in 1934 and was involved in a number of unsuccessful ventures that left him broke. When he died of an internal hemorrhage on November 23, 1948 he was penniless. Relatives refused to claim his body and funeral service were arranged and paid for by Ford Flick. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. The Granite Tombstone that Marks his grave in the Roasedale Cemetery in Martinsburg, West Virginia has a replica of his Hall of Fame Plaque affixed too it.
HACK WILSON
Robert Lewis "Hack" Wilson was born on April 26, 1900 in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. He moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1921 to play baseball for the Class D Martinsburg Mountaineer. His first Major League game was in 1923 and during his 11 year his Major League Career he played for the New York Giants, Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. He retired in 1934 and was involved in a number of unsuccessful ventures that left him broke. When he died of an internal hemorrhage on November 23, 1948 he was penniless. Relatives refused to claim his body and funeral service were arranged and paid for by Ford Flick. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. The Granite Tombstone that Marks his grave in the Roasedale Cemetery in Martinsburg, West Virginia has a replica of his Hall of Fame Plaque affixed too it.