{{Short description|American baseball player (1896–1918)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Newt Halliday |image= |width= |position=First baseman |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date={{birth date|1896|6|18}} |birth_place=Chicago, Illinois |death_date={{death date and age|1918|4|6|1896|6|18}} |death_place=Great Lakes, Illinois |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=August 19 |debutyear=1916 |debutteam=Pittsburgh Pirates |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=August 19 |finalyear=1916 |finalteam=Pittsburgh Pirates |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Games played |stat1value=1 |stat2label=At bats |stat2value=1 |stat3label=Hits |stat3value=0 |teams= *Pittsburgh Pirates ({{baseball year|1916}}) }} '''Newton Schurz Halliday''' (June 18, 1896 – April 6, 1918) was an American baseball player. He appeared in a portion of one game in Major League Baseball as a first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates on August 19, 1916. Halliday had three putouts and an assist in the game and struck out in his only at bat.<ref name=BR>{{cite news|title=Newt Halliday Statistics and History|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=baseball-reference.com|accessdate=June 8, 2014|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/halline01.shtml}}</ref>
Halliday joined the United States Navy after the United States entered World War I. He attended the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, where he contracted tuberculosis, which led to his death at the age of 21.<ref name="Russo">{{cite book|last=Russo|first=Frank|title=Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball|url=https://archive.org/details/burymyheartatcoo0000russ|url-access=registration|year=2006|publisher=Triumph Books|location=United States|isbn=1572438223|pages=272}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Newt Halliday|author=Gary Bedingfield|work=Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice|publisher=Gary Bedingfield and Baseball Almanac|accessdate=June 8, 2014|url=http://www.baseballsgreatestsacrifice.com/biographies/halliday_newt.html}}</ref>
Halliday was one of eight Major League Baseball players known either to have been killed or died from illness while serving in the armed forces during World War I. The others were Alex Burr‚ Harry Chapman, Larry Chappell‚ Harry Glenn, Eddie Grant‚ Ralph Sharman and Bun Troy.<ref>{{cite web|title=World War I Deaths|publisher=Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice|accessdate=June 8, 2014|url=http://www.baseballsgreatestsacrifice.com/world_war_i.html}}</ref>
==See also== * List of baseball players who died during their careers
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==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=h/halline01}} * [https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/newt-halliday/ Newt Halliday] at SABR Bio Project
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