Hugh Campbell (baseball)

{{Short description|Irish baseball player (1846–1881)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Hugh Campbell

|position=Pitcher

|image=

|bats=Unknown

|throws=Unknown

|birth_date= c. 1846

|birth_place=Ireland

|death_date={{Death date and age|1881|03|01|1846}}

|death_place=Newark, New Jersey

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 28

|debutyear={{By|1873}}

|debutteam=Elizabeth Resolutes

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 17

|finalyear={{By|1873}}

|finalteam=Elizabeth Resolutes

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=2–16

|stat2label=Innings pitched

|stat2value=165

|stat3label=ERA

|stat3value=2.95

|teams=

;  National Association of Base Ball Players

: Irvington of Irvington, NJ (1866–1869)

: Elizabeth Resolutes (1870)

;  National Association of Professional BBP

: Elizabeth Resolutes (1873)

}}

Hugh F. Campbell (c. 1846 – March 1, 1881) was an Irish professional baseball player who pitched in just one season. He was a starting pitcher for the {{By|1873}} Elizabeth Resolutes of the National Association.{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pcamph101.htm|title=Hugh Campbell's career statistics|publisher=retrosheet.org|accessdate=2008-10-04}} His younger brother, Mike Campbell, was the team's starting first baseman.

He pitched much better than his 2–16 record would indicate. The Resolutes won 2, lost 21, and made 247 errors, an average of 10.7 per game, with Campbell himself making 21 of them.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/RES/1873.shtml|title=Elizabeth Resolutes team page|publisher=baseball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-10-04}} As a result, he gave up 213 runs in 165 innings pitched, but only 52 of them were earned runs. His ERA was 2.95, which was better than the league average, and was in fact sixth-best in the league.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/campbhu01.shtml|title=Hugh Campbell's career statistics|publisher=baseball-reference.com|accessdate=2008-10-04}} His two victories came against the Brooklyn Atlantics and the Boston Red Stockings.{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1873/VELI01873.htm|title=Elizabeth Resolutes game log|publisher=retrosheet.org|accessdate=2008-10-04}}

Campbell died at the age of 34 in Newark, New Jersey of phthisis pulmonalis,{{cite web|url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/tooyoung.html|title=Too Young To Die|publisher=thedeadballera.com|accessdate=2008-10-04}} and is interred at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange, New Jersey.