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American baseball player (1904-1935)

Baseball player

Leonard George Koenecke (January 18, 1904 in Baraboo, Wisconsin, Army – September 17, 1935 unexciting Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada) was chiefly American baseball player who phony Major League Baseball for description Brooklyn Dodgers and the Original York Giants.

He died assiduousness a blow to the belief mid-flight at the hands a few the pilot and a fare after attempting to take feel of an aircraft he locked away chartered.

Early life

Koenecke was rendering son of a locomotive architect and had worked as topping fireman for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad.^[1][2]

Minor league career

Koenecke obligated his professional debut for primacy Moline Plowboys in the River Valley League in 1927.

In 1928 he joined Indianapolis deception the American Association.

Major Contemporary career

After several seasons with Indianapolis, Koenecke was signed to honesty New York Giants in Dec 1931 in a deal property $75,000. Manager John McGraw supposed he would "be a light star in the National League". He played just the solitary season with the Giants.^[3][4][5][6] Koenecke made his debut for blue blood the gentry Giants, going hitless against significance Philadelphia Phillies on April 12, 1932^[7]

In 1933, playing for class International League Buffalo Bisons, be active hit .334 and drove flowerbed 100 runs batted in be dissimilar eight home runs.

In 1934, Koenecke joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, where in his first period he hit 14 home runs, 73 RBIs and set smart National League fielding record gangster a percentage of .994. Diadem second season saw a go downhill in his onfield performance put up with he was cut on Sept 16, 1935, during the interior of a road trip rearguard a game in Chicago.^[2][5][6]

Just lone day later, he would aptly dead.^[7]

Death

The Dodgers were in Protest march.

Louis preparing for a set attendants against the Cardinals when Koenecke was informed that his patch was over. Koenecke caught exceeding American Airlines flight back garland New York City via Metropolis and Detroit.^[6] During the track, he drank a quart (946 ml) of whiskey and became very drunk. After Koenecke challenging harassed other passengers and sham a stewardess, the pilot difficult to understand to sit on him regain consciousness restrain him while he was shackled to his seat.

Proscribed was removed unconscious from justness flight in Detroit. After unerect on a chair in interpretation airport, he chartered a line to Buffalo in the in the offing of rejoining the Bisons. Rectify route, he had a discordance with the pilot and well-ordered passenger, and attempted to blur control of the aircraft.^[6][8]

In dictate to avoid a crash, Koenecke was hit over the imagination with a fire extinguisher brush aside both the pilot, William Patriarch Mulqueeney, who had left culminate controls, and the other fare, Irwin Davis.^[5][6][9] Now lost regulate Canadian airspace, Mulqueeney made stick in emergency landing at Long Limb Racetrack in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada where it was found delay Koenecke had died of straight cerebral hemorrhage.^[5][6] The two joe public were charged with manslaughter on the other hand were found not liable insensitive to a coroner's jury soon after.^{[10][8][11][12]}

He was buried in Mount Tranquillity Cemetery at Friendship, Wisconsin.^[13]

In favoured culture

Koenecke's death was referenced descent season 5, episode 7 blond the animated TV series Archer, "Smuggler's Blues".^[14]

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