Michael Riley "Doc" Powers was a Major League
Baseball player who played catcher for four different teams from
1898 to 1909. He played for the Louisville Colonels and Washington
Senators of the National League, and the Philadelphia Athletics,
and New York Highlanders of the American League. He played college
baseball at the University of Notre Dame in 1897 and 1898. Powers'
nickname was derived from the fact that he was a licensed physician
as well as a ballplayer.
On April 12, 1909, Powers was injured during the first game played
in Philadelphia's Shibe Park, crashing into a wall while chasing a
foul pop-up. He sustained internal injuries from the collision and
died two weeks later from complications from three intestinal
surgeries, becoming the first Major Leaguer to suffer a fatal
on-field injury.
The listed coordinates will take you to the
gravesite of Mr. Powers. His wife, Florence, is bured with him. Her
years of birth and death are 18AB - 19CD. The coordinates for the
final are N38 14.EF1, W085 43.GH7.
E=A-7
F=B-3
G=C-5
H=D-2
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