Red Donahue

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Red Donahue

|image=Red Donahue.jpg

|position=Pitcher

|birth_date={{Birth date|1873|1|23}}

|birth_place=Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1913|8|25|1873|1|23}}

|death_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 6

|debutyear=1893

|debutteam=New York Giants

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 28

|finalyear=1906

|finalteam=Detroit Tigers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=164–175

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=3.61

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=787

|teams=

New York Giants ({{mlby|1893}})
St. Louis Browns (NL) ({{mlby|1895}}–{{mlby|1897}})
Philadelphia Phillies ({{mlby|1898}}–{{mlby|1901}})
St. Louis Browns ({{mlby|1902}}–{{mlby|1903}})
Cleveland Naps ({{mlby|1903}}–{{mlby|1905}})
Detroit Tigers ({{mlby|1906}})

|highlights=

Pitched a no-hitter on July 8, 1898

}}

Francis Rostell "Red" Donahue (January 23, 1873 – August 25, 1913) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher from Waterbury, Connecticut, who played for 13 seasons both in the National League and the American League from {{mlby|1893}} through {{mlby|1906}}.{{cite web| title = Red Donahue's career stats | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/D/Pdonar101.htm | access-date = 2008-03-26 }}

Career

Red broke into the Majors with the New York Giants in 1893, while still attending Villanova University. After finishing college in {{mlby|1895}}, he appeared with the St. Louis Browns near the end of the season. On July 8, {{mlby|1898}}, he pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Beaneaters. He lost 35 games during the 1897 season, still an MLB record.

Post-career

Red died in Philadelphia at the age of 40, after succumbing to the effects of paralysis,{{cite news|title="Red" Donahue Dies in Philadelphia|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 26, 1913|page=7|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/08/26/100404677.html?pageNumber=7}} and was interred at St. Joseph Cemetery in Waterbury, Connecticut.