Batting average .261 Name Charlie Dexter Stolen bases 183 | Runs batted in 346 Home runs 16 Role Baseball player | |
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Died June 9, 1934, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States | ||
Charlie dexter
Charles Dana Dexter (June 15, 1876 – June 9, 1934) was a Major League Baseball outfielder from 1896 to 1903. He played for the Louisville Colonels, Boston Braves, and Chicago Cubs. An alumnus of the University of the South, he committed suicide in Cedar Rapids, Iowa by shooting in 1934.
On December 30, 1903 Charlie Dexter and fellow player John Franklin Houseman were in a box watching the show at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago when the Iroquois Theatre fire broke out; they were credited with breaking down a locked door and rescuing a number of people.
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