Mr. Walsh, a.k.a. Mickey Welch, was the third Major League pitcher to win 300 games. He's one of two baseball Hall of Famers buried here in Calvary, the other being Wee Willie Keeler.
Day 881
Michael Walsh
May 29th, 2014
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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Maps: Progress | Photos
9,326 miles walked
Your donations allow me to keep walking full-time. If you think what I'm doing is valuable and you'd like to offer some support, I would be very grateful. On the other hand, if you think I'm a worthless bum, feel free to email me and tell me to get a job, bozo. Both are excellent options!
How do you know which ones to focus in on out of the gazillions of tombstones available?
I don’t usually research the places I go ahead of time, but I do often check to see if any well-known people are buried in the cemeteries before I walk them, and I’ll note the location of any graves I particularly want to see — like Mickey Welch’s, for example. But it also often happens that I take a photo of a monument/mausoleum just because it looks interesting, and then it turns out to have a crazy story behind it that I learn about after the fact, as was the case with the Scannell monument that I just posted about.
Sorry to say, not only was Mickey Welch not the first pinch-hitter, but Sept. 10, 1889, wasn’t even the first time he pinch-hit that season.