Edward J. Henderson (December 25, 1884 – January 15, 1964), born Eugene Johnson Ball, was a professional

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. Henderson played for the

Pittsburgh Rebels The Pittsburgh Rebels were a baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1913 to 1915. The team was a member of the short-lived Federal League. The team was originally called the Pittsburgh Stogies after an earlier Pittsburgh team tha ...

and the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the

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in . He spent 1913 with the Lowell Grays of the

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, and jumped to the Federal League the following year as the Lowell club was unable to pay him.

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