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Grant Thatcher
Grant Thatcher pitched a couple years for the Brooklyn Superbas. He was a couple years older than teammate Jimmy Sheckard, who also lived in Lancaster County, PA. [Again, why does bRef Bullpen wiki always compare people's ages to Jimmy Sheckard?]
An article about Grant states that his appearance for the Superbas in 1904 occurred under interesting circumstances. It was a Sunday game and that was illegal at the time, so word circulated that the police were planning to arrest the starting pitcher and catcher. Brooklyn decided to use Ed Poole to start the game, and when he was arrested, Thatcher became his replacement (and was not arrested). After baseball Thatcher worked in a tobacco warehouse and as a bartender.
I had no "before" facegen but instead am showing what facegen gleaned from the newspaper photo bRef has for him. It was the only one I could find. But if I squint, I can see that face in there and so I colored it and tried to hold the imported look as best I could.
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