// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Aleck Pearsall? A pear-fect stranger.
| Aleck Pearsall | |
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| Brooklyn Excelsiors | |
| First Baseman | |
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Aleck T. Pearsall was an American baseball player for the Excelsior of Brooklyn during the game's amateur era. He played first base for Brooklyn. In the winter of 1862, he volunteered in the Confederate army, as a surgeon. During the war, he worked as brigade surgeon in Richmond, Virginia. He sometimes attended to Union prisoners, some of which were his former teammates. When the news about Pearsall working for the Confederates reached Brooklyn, the Excelsior club expelled him.[1][2]
He settled down in Montgomery, Alabama.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Baseball History: 19th Century Baseball: Image: Brooklyn Excelsiors, 1860 Baseball Team". www.19cbaseball.com. Archived from the original on September 6, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
- ↑ Ryczek, William. "The Brooklyn Excelsiors: Baseball's First Road Gang | The National Pastime Museum". thenationalpastimemuseum.com. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
- ↑ Watkins, Clarence (February 6, 2017). Baseball in Montgomery. Arcadia Publishing. p. 1. ISBN 9781439659427.