Frank Bonner (baseball)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1869–1905)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Frank Bonner

|image=Frank Bonner (baseball).jpg

|position=Second baseman

|birth_date={{Birth date|1869|8|20}}

|birth_place=Lowell, Massachusetts, US

|death_date={{death date and age|1905|12|31|1869|8|20}}

|death_place=Kansas City, Missouri, US

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 26

|debutyear=1894

|debutteam=Baltimore Orioles

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 25

|finalyear=1903

|finalteam=Boston Beaneaters

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.257

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=4

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=115

|teams=

• Baltimore Orioles ({{Baseball year|1894}}–{{Baseball year|1895}})
• St. Louis Browns ({{Baseball year|1895}})
• Brooklyn Bridegrooms ({{Baseball year|1896}})
• Washington Senators ({{Baseball year|1899}})
• Cleveland Bronchos ({{Baseball year|1902}})
• Philadelphia Athletics ({{Baseball year|1902}})
• Boston Beaneaters ({{Baseball year|1903}})

}}

Frank J. Bonner (August 20, 1869 – December 31, 1905) was an American professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1894 to 1903 for the Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, Washington Senators, Cleveland Bronchos, Philadelphia Athletics, and Boston Beaneaters. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. Bonner was nicknamed "the Human Flea".{{cite news|last1=Tosches|first1=Rich|title=Anyone Seen Pierre Lamere? : Lefty Blasco Needs Just One More Photo to Complete His Collection of Every Cub|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-06-18-sp-11249-story.html|access-date=19 October 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=18 June 1986}}

Bonner died of blood poisoning at the age of 36.McKenna, Brian. Early exits: the premature endings of baseball careers, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, p. 224. {{ISBN|0-8108-5858-4}} His wife had committed suicide in June of that year.