{{Short description|American baseball player (1864–1892)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Ned Bligh |image=Nedbligh.jpg |position=Catcher |birth_date={{Birth date|1864|6|30}} |birth_place=Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1892|4|18|1864|6|30}} |death_place=Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |bats=Right |throws=Right |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=June 26 |debutyear=1886 |debutteam=Baltimore Orioles |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=October 14 |finalyear=1890 |finalteam=Louisville Colonels |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat2label=Home runs |stat3label=Runs batted in |stat1value=.163 |stat2value=1 |stat3value=19 |teams= *Baltimore Orioles (1886) *Cincinnati Red Stockings (1888) *Columbus Solons (1889–1890) *Louisville Colonels (1890) }} '''Edwin Forrest Bligh''' (June 30, 1864 – April 18, 1892) was an American catcher in Major League Baseball player from Brooklyn, New York, who played for four teams during his four-season career. He didn't collect his first base hit until his third season, and fourteenth at bat, when he was purchased by the Columbus Solons from the Cincinnati Red Stockings for $1500 on December 14, 1888. He played in a total of 66 games, collecting 34 hits in 209 at bats for a .163 career batting average.<ref name="baseball-reference">{{Cite web |title=Ned Bligh Stats |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/blighne01.shtml |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref>
Ned died of asthenia<ref>{{Cite web |title=Too Young To Die |url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/tooyoung.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240327002036/http://www.thedeadballera.com/tooyoung.html |archive-date=2024-03-27 |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=TheDeadBallEra.com}}</ref> at the age of 27 in his hometown of Brooklyn, and is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery.<ref name="Retrosheet">{{cite web| title = Ned Bligh Stats | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B/Pblign101.htm | accessdate = 2007-07-20 }}</ref>
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