Rowdy Elliott

{{Short description|American baseball player (1890–1934)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Rowdy Elliott

|position=Catcher

|image=Rowdy Elliott 1918.jpeg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1890|07|08}}

|birth_place=Kokomo, Indiana

|death_date={{death date and age|1934|02|12|1890|07|08}}

|death_place=San Francisco, California

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate= September 24

|debutyear= 1910

|debutteam= Boston Doves

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 2

|finalyear=1920

|finalteam=Brooklyn Robins

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.241

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=1

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=44

|teams=

• Boston Doves ({{mlby|1910}})
• Chicago Cubs ({{mlby|1916}}–{{mlby|1918}})
• Brooklyn Robins ({{mlby|1920}})

}}

Harold Bell "Rowdy" Elliott (July 8, 1890 – February 12, 1934) was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Doves, Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Robins in parts of five seasons spanning 1910–1920. Listed at 5' 9", 160 lb., Elliott batted and threw right handed. He was born in Kokomo, Indiana.{{cite web|url=http://www.faqs.org/baseball/player/E/ellioro01/Rowdy-Elliott.html|title=Rowdy Elliott - Baseball player - stats, day of birth, day of death, games played :: Baseball stats at faqs.org|website=www.faqs.org}}

Elliott spent 23 years in baseball between 1907 and 1929, which included his five in the majors and 20 in the minor leagues, while losing most of 1918 when he joined the United States Navy during World War I.{{cn|date=November 2022}}

On February 23, 1920, Elliott married Helena McKerman, a native of North Dakota, in Alameda County, California. He died at the age of 43 at Harbor Hospital in San Francisco, California from injuries received in a fall from an apartment house window. The circumstances of his death are still a mystery.{{cite book|last=Russo|first=Frank|title=Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball|url=https://archive.org/details/burymyheartatcoo0000russ|url-access=registration|year=2006|publisher=Triumph Books|location=United States|isbn=1572438223|pages=272}}