'happy jack'

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Chesbro


'He was born John D. Cheesbro on June 5, 1874 in Houghtonville, a village in North Adams, Massachusetts.[11] He was the fourth of five children of Chad Brown Chesebrough, a shoemaker, and Martha Jane Fralensburgh.[12][13]


In 1892, Cheesbro began playing for a sandlot ball team in Houghtonville.[14] He worked in 1894 as an attendant at the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital in Middletown, New York in order to play for the Asylums, the team representing the mental hospital. There, an inmate gave Cheesbro the nickname "Happy Jack", due to his pleasant demeanor.[15]' -