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Originally Posted by frank5k
wanted to know if mart Bergen is a boston red sox player from the late 1800's or early 1900's that is in a group of 1890 cabinent photo's on probstein 123 , thank you , frank /845/590/6224
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The Bergen included in this group of cabinet photos is definitely not the Boston NL catcher Martin Bergen, who was mentally unbalanced and slaughtered his wife and children before killing himself in 1900. The player pictured is Martin V. Bergen, son of a NJ congressman who played baseball and football at Princeton, became a lawyer and also coached the Grinnell (Iowa) and University of Virginia football teams.
By the way, the Boston NL team of the 1890s did not use the nickname Beaneaters in the way nicknames are used today. The term Beaneaters was used in jocular fashion by the sporting press (Sporting News and Sporting Life) just as the Yankees are called the Bronx Bombers or Pinstripers today. If you asked a Boston baseball fan how the Beaneaters did, you'd likely get a blank stare, or a knuckle sandwich, in reply.
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