{{Short description|American baseball player (1863–1886)}} {{distinguish|Bernard Graham}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Bernie Graham | image = | position = [[Outfielder]] | bats = Left | throws = Unknown | birth_date = {{birth date|1863|2|10}} | birth_place = [[Beloit, Wisconsin]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1886|10|30|1863|2|10}} | death_place = [[Mobile, Alabama]] |debutleague = MLB | debutdate = July 11 | debutyear = 1884 | debutteam = Chicago Browns |finalleague = MLB | finaldate = October 15 | finalyear = 1884 | finalteam = Baltimore Monumentals |statleague = MLB | stat1label = [[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]] | stat1value = .267 | stat2label = [[Run (baseball)|Runs]] | stat2value = 23 | stat3label = [[Games played]] | stat3value = 42 | teams = * [[Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies|Chicago Browns]] ({{baseball year|1884}}) * [[Baltimore Monumentals]] ({{baseball year|1884}}) | highlights = }}
'''Bernard W. Graham''' (February 10, 1863{{ndash}} October 30, 1886) was an American [[Major League Baseball]] player who played one season in the [[Union Association]]. The Association lasted just one season, 1884, and Graham played one game for the [[Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies|Chicago Browns]] and 41 for the [[Baltimore Monumentals]]. He [[batting average (baseball)|batted]] .267 for the year, scored 23 [[run (baseball)|runs]], and hit 11 [[double (baseball)|doubles]].<ref name="retrosheet">{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/G/Pgrahb104.htm|title=Bernie Graham's career statistics|publisher=retrosheet.org|accessdate=2009-01-27}}</ref>
Graham died at the age of 23 in [[Mobile, Alabama]] from [[typhoid fever]],<ref name="tooyoung">{{cite web|url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/tooyoung.html|title=Too Young To Die|publisher=thedeadballera.com|accessdate=2009-01-27}}</ref> and is interred at Catholic Cemetery in Mobile / Catholic Cemetery, Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin.<ref name=retrosheet/>
==Death== Death notice taken from the Beloit Weekly Free Press, from November 11, 1886, page 3
The remains of Mr. Barney Graham arrived in the city Thursday from Mobile, Alabama. Deceased was a professional baseball player in the South and died of a fever. His parents live four miles west of the city and came to Wisconsin from the East about two years ago. The remains will be buried in this city.
==Grave==
Rhode Island Birth Index, 1863.
Name: Graham, Bernard; Sex: Male; Birthdate: 02 10 63 [February 10, 1863]; Father: Thomas; Mother: Rose; Bk-Pg-Ct: 63-113-03.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Baseball stats |br=g/grahabe01 |brm=graham003ber }}
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