Baseball Trivia

This week's question is submitted by Elon law prof,  and friend of the Lounge, Eric Fink.

One of the outstanding players of the late 19th century, this Hall-of-Famer pitched the second recorded perfect game in history, a feat not repeated by a National League pitcher for another 84 years.  After injuring his arm, he switched positions to shortstop.  While playing for the New York Giants, he attended and graduated from law school at Columbia.  A staunch opponent of the reserve clause and player classification system, he was instrumental in forming the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players, the first labor union for athletes, and the Players League, a short-lived rival to the National League.  After retiring from baseball, he continued to represent players' interests as a successful New York attorney.

Can you identify this person?

Pictured:  Pud Galvin baseball card (source here).  Galvin, a member of the HOF, and baseball's first 300-game winner, was the losing pitcher in the perfect game thrown by the answer to today's trivia question.

Comments

[anony]

Robert Montgomery Ward.

[Eric Fink]

Well done, Anony.