Willard Hershberger
Willard McKee Hershberger (May 28, 1910 – August 3, 1940) was an American professional baseball catcher for Major League Baseball (MLB's) Cincinnati Reds from 1938 to 1940.
He has the distinction of being the only major league player to date to commit suicide during the season.
Read more about Willard Hershberger: Life and Career, Professional Baseball Career, Suicide, Number 5, Ernie Lombardi's Attempted Suicide
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“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)