Charles Dana Dexter (1876-1934) was a Major League Baseball outfielder, catcher and third baseman who played with the Louisville Colonels, Chicago Orphans, Boston Beaneaters, Des Moines Champions, and Minneapolis Millers.
On Dec 30, 1903 he was at the Iroquois Theatre with retired baseball player, Frank Houseman. Both escaped and helped other theatergoers. In later years it was estimated that their efforts helped save two to three hundred people. That's probably an exaggeration but the more realistic several dozen is nothing to sneeze at.
Dexter had graduated from the University of the South in 1894 and gone to work as a society and drama editor at an Evansville, Indiana newspaper, the Evansville Blotting Pad.
Two years after the Iroquois Theater fire, in 1905, Dexter and some fellow baseball friends, including Henry Quait Bateman of the Milwaukee American Association, enjoyed a drunken night on the town that ended badly. A quarrel over cab fare resulted in Dexter's arrest after stabbing Bateman, puncturing his lung. The prognosis for Bateman's survival was poor but he outlived Dexter who took his own life with a gun in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1934, three years before the death of Henry Bateman.
Toward the end of his life, he wrote articles about baseball and ghostwrote for major players.
On Dec 30, 1903 he was at the Iroquois Theatre with retired baseball player, Frank Houseman. Both escaped and helped other theatergoers. In later years it was estimated that their efforts helped save two to three hundred people. That's probably an exaggeration but the more realistic several dozen is nothing to sneeze at.
Dexter had graduated from the University of the South in 1894 and gone to work as a society and drama editor at an Evansville, Indiana newspaper, the Evansville Blotting Pad.
Two years after the Iroquois Theater fire, in 1905, Dexter and some fellow baseball friends, including Henry Quait Bateman of the Milwaukee American Association, enjoyed a drunken night on the town that ended badly. A quarrel over cab fare resulted in Dexter's arrest after stabbing Bateman, puncturing his lung. The prognosis for Bateman's survival was poor but he outlived Dexter who took his own life with a gun in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1934, three years before the death of Henry Bateman.
Toward the end of his life, he wrote articles about baseball and ghostwrote for major players.
Charles Dana Dexter (1876-1934) was a Major League Baseball outfielder, catcher and third baseman who played with the Louisville Colonels, Chicago Orphans, Boston Beaneaters, Des Moines Champions, and Minneapolis Millers.
On Dec 30, 1903 he was at the Iroquois Theatre with retired baseball player, Frank Houseman. Both escaped and helped other theatergoers. In later years it was estimated that their efforts helped save two to three hundred people. That's probably an exaggeration but the more realistic several dozen is nothing to sneeze at.
Dexter had graduated from the University of the South in 1894 and gone to work as a society and drama editor at an Evansville, Indiana newspaper, the Evansville Blotting Pad.
Two years after the Iroquois Theater fire, in 1905, Dexter and some fellow baseball friends, including Henry Quait Bateman of the Milwaukee American Association, enjoyed a drunken night on the town that ended badly. A quarrel over cab fare resulted in Dexter's arrest after stabbing Bateman, puncturing his lung. The prognosis for Bateman's survival was poor but he outlived Dexter who took his own life with a gun in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1934, three years before the death of Henry Bateman.
Toward the end of his life, he wrote articles about baseball and ghostwrote for major players.
On Dec 30, 1903 he was at the Iroquois Theatre with retired baseball player, Frank Houseman. Both escaped and helped other theatergoers. In later years it was estimated that their efforts helped save two to three hundred people. That's probably an exaggeration but the more realistic several dozen is nothing to sneeze at.
Dexter had graduated from the University of the South in 1894 and gone to work as a society and drama editor at an Evansville, Indiana newspaper, the Evansville Blotting Pad.
Two years after the Iroquois Theater fire, in 1905, Dexter and some fellow baseball friends, including Henry Quait Bateman of the Milwaukee American Association, enjoyed a drunken night on the town that ended badly. A quarrel over cab fare resulted in Dexter's arrest after stabbing Bateman, puncturing his lung. The prognosis for Bateman's survival was poor but he outlived Dexter who took his own life with a gun in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1934, three years before the death of Henry Bateman.
Toward the end of his life, he wrote articles about baseball and ghostwrote for major players.
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