Kid Madden

{{Short description|American baseball player (1866–1896)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Kid Madden | image = Kid madden.jpg | position = Pitcher | bats = Left | throws = Left | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1866|10|22}} | birth_place = Portland, Maine, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1896|3|16|1866|10|22}} | death_place = Portland, Maine, U.S. |debutleague = MLB | debutdate = May 6 | debutyear = 1887 | debutteam = Boston Beaneaters |finalleague = MLB | finaldate = October 6 | finalyear = 1891 | finalteam = Baltimore Orioles |statleague = MLB | stat1label = Win–loss record | stat1value = 54–50 | stat2label = Earned run average | stat2value = 3.92 | stat3label = Strikeouts | stat3value = 284 | teams = * Boston Beaneaters ({{baseball year|1887}}–{{baseball year|1889}}) * Boston Reds (PL/AA) ({{baseball year|1890}}–{{baseball year|1891}}) * Baltimore Orioles ({{baseball year|1891}}) }} '''Michael Joseph '''"'''Kid'''"''' Madden''' (October 22, 1866 – March 16, 1896<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bennett|first1=Troy|title=This teenage pitcher won 21 games for Boston in 1887|url=http://portland.bangordailynews.com/2016/10/15/home/this-teenage-pitcher-won-21-games-for-boston-in-1887/|website=BDN Maine|publisher=Bangor Daily News|accessdate=15 October 2016|archive-date=October 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003182106/http://portland.bangordailynews.com/2016/10/15/home/this-teenage-pitcher-won-21-games-for-boston-in-1887/|url-status=dead}}</ref>) was an American Major League Baseball player who pitched for three different teams from {{baseball year|1887}} to {{baseball year|1891}}. He played for the Boston Braves, Boston Reds, and Baltimore Orioles. Madden died of "consumption" (tuberculosis) at the age of 29 in his hometown of Portland, Maine, leaving behind a widow and two children.<ref name="bangordailywhig">{{cite news |title = Base Ball Gossip |newspaper = The Bangor Daily Whig and Courier |location = Bangor, Maine |pages = 4 |date = 18 March 1896 |url = http://www.newspaperarchive.com |accessdate = 12 July 2010}}</ref> He is interred at South Portland's Calvary Cemetery.<ref name="retrosheet">{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/M/Pmaddk101.htm|title=Kid Madden's career statistics|publisher=retrosheet.org|accessdate=2009-03-31}}</ref>

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