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1910 Retirees

The following players turned in their equipment for the last time as Arizona League players. Some notable pitchers hanging it up this season, including the league's only pitcher to throw a perfect game. Some notes on some of the guys below (one of my favorite parts of this dynasty is checking the retired players after each season and seeing what interesting stories I'll find):

Kitty Bransfield retires ...
Pete Childs retires ...
Wid Conroy retires ...
Fred Crolius retires ...
Harry Davis retires ...
Charlie Dexter retires ...
Bill Dinneen retires ...
Joe Dolan retires ...
Bill Duggleby retires ...
Frank Foutz retires ...
Ned Garvin retires ...
Phil Geier retires ...
Burt Hart retires ...
Charlie Hemphill retires ...
Bert Husting retires ...
Frank Isbell retires ...
Jim Jones retires ...
Willie Keeler retires ...
Cliff Blankenship retires ...
Tacks Latimer retires ...
Harry Lochhead retires ...
Pat Moran retires ...
Ed Murphy retires ...
Jerry Nops retires ...
Al Orth retires ...
Heinie Peitz retires ...
George Prentiss retires ...
Tully Sparks retires ...
Chick Stahl retires ...
Dummy Taylor retires ...
Jack Taylor retires ...
Jake Volz retires ...
Ernie Courtney retires ...
Pep Deininger retires ...
Patsy Dougherty retires ...
Wiley Dunham retires ...
Peaches Graham retires ...
Alex Hardy retires ...
Ham Iburg retires ...
Henry Krug retires ...
Jack Lundbom retires ...
Dusty Miller retires ...
Homer Smoot retires ...
Art Williams retires ...
Joe Marshall retires ...
Jimmy Wiggs retires ...
Joe Yeager retires ...
Tom Doran retires ...
Bob Hall retires ...
Ike Rockenfield retires ...
Bob Ganley retires ...
Frank Oberlin retires ...
Tom Mccarthy retires ...
GCA: Jack Chesbro retires ...
PRE: Gene Demontreville retires ...
PRE: Chappie Mcfarland retires ...
PRE: Joe Martin retires ...
PRE: Kaiser Wilhelm retires ...
SED: John Anderson retires ...
SED: Harry Wolverton retires ...
SED: Doc Reisling retires ...
NOG: Ed Doheny retires ...
TEM: Sam Leever retires ...
TEM: Harvey Cushman retires ...
TEM: Jim Mchale retires ...
TOM: War Sanders retires ...
TUC: Jesse Tannehill retires ...

• Jack Taylor, the only player in the history of the Arizona League to pitch a perfect game, stepped out of the game with a career record of 139-140. His career ERA was 3.02. Interestingly, Mr. Perfect Game bounced around among four different teams. He threw his perfecto in 1901 with Nogales, then moved around to Lake Havasu/Carefree, Sedona and Yuma. He was 1-2 in the post-season. His best season record was 21-17 with Yuma in 1903. In 1906, he was 6-17 with Sedona and Lake Havasu. His 1.98 ERA in 1905 led the league...

• Gene Demontreville was a starting shortstop on four AZL championship teams in Prescott. He finished with 1,400 career hits and batted .262 in the post-season with 54 hits in 206 plate appearances. He was named to two All-Star games. In 1902, he led the Southern League with 109 RBIs.

• Chappie McFarland was reliable reserve pitcher/releiver for three Prescott championship teams, finishing with an 18-11 record with six saves.

• Frank Foutz had a six RBI game for Tucson back in 1903...

• Ned Garvin was traded six times after pitching for the Cactus Champion Payson Longhorns in 1901. He finished with 135 wins...

• Frank Isbel spent his entire career with Jerome, winning three Field General awards. He had seven RBIs in a game in 1908 ...

• "Wee Willie" Keeler had five hits in four different games with Cottonwood from 1902-04...

• Catcher Heinie Peitz of Kayenta had six hits against Cottonwood in 1902. He only had one RBI, though, for his effort...

• RF Chick Stahl finished with 1,357 career hits, playing his entire career in Yuma. He batted .302 in the postseason, with five doubles, three homers and two triples in 85 post-season ABs. He also won three Field General awards...

• LF Homer Smoot won three Field General awards with Kayenta and Yuma...

• Pitcher Jack Chesbro threw a no-hitter for Grand Canyon in 1901, the first year of the league. He was a four-time All-Star. His career record 128-94...

• John Anderson once had a six-hit game for Sedona...

• Pitcher Ed Doheny of Nogales pitched a no-hitter against Tombstone in 1907...

• Pitcher Sam "Deacon" Leever is hanging it up after earning 182 wins for Tombstone and Tempe. He led the league with 400.1 innings pitched in 1901 and also had a league high six shutouts that season...

• CF Jim McHale had a true cup-of-coffee experience in the AZL. He was drafted in 1908 and played four games with Tempe that season (never coming to bat). Injuries sidelined him the next two seasons and he stepped out of the game at age 34 before the 1911 campaign...

• Pitcher Jesse Tannehill was the fourth overall player selected in the initial AZL draft in 1901. He won the 1902 Cactus Cup with Nogales then spent the rest of his career in Tucson, compiling a career record of 164-149...