Walter Prince: Difference between revisions

{{shortShort description|American baseball player (1861–1938)}}

Prince began his professional baseball career with the Woonsocket Comets. In August 1883, he joined the [[Louisville Eclipse]] of the American Association to replace the team's injured first baseman [[Jumbo Latham]].<ref name=Rank>{{cite book|title=The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball|author=David Nemec|publisher=McFarland|year=2012|page=148|isbn=0786490446978-0786490448}}</ref> Prince appeared in only four games for Louisville, compiling a .182 [[batting average (baseball)|batting average]].<ref name=BR/>

In 1884, Prince played for three different major league clubs—the [[Detroit Wolverines]] of the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] (seven games), the [[Washington Nationals (AA)|Washington Nationals]] of the [[American Association (19th century)|American Association]] (43 games), and the [[Washington Nationals (UA)|Washington Nationals]] of the [[Union Association]] (one game). In 51 major league games during the 1884 season, he compiled a .209 batting average with three doubles, two triples, one home run and one RBI.<ref name=BR>{{cite web|title=Walter Prince Statistics and History|work=baseball-reference.com|accessdateaccess-date=July 3, 2014|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/princwa01.shtml}}</ref>

Prince continued to play minor league baseball through the 1889 season, including stints with Haverhill of the Eastern New England League (1885), the Salem Witches of the New England League (1888), Portland of the New England League, and the London Tecumsehs of the International League (1888–89). He compiled a career high .380 batting average with Salem in 1888.<ref name=Minor>{{cite web|title=Walter Prince Minor League Statistics|work=baseball-reference.com|accessdateaccess-date=July 3, 2014|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=prince001wal}}</ref>

After retiring from baseball, Prince worked for the International Steam Pump Company for 25 years.<ref name=Rank/> In 1910, he was in charge of the company's foundry department at [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Melting Borings and Turnings in the Cupola|newspaper=The Foundry|date=January 1910|page=23|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g8M7AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref>

Prince later owned a developed a group of overnight bungalows known as Prince's Place on [[Newfound Lake]] in [[Bristol, New Hampshire]]. He was also an investor in Camp Berea on Newfound Lake in [[Hebron, New Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Newfound Lake|author=Jeanne Mulhern Hoflen, Kent G. Hoflen|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2012|page=32|isbn=0738576654978-0738576657}}</ref>