Elmer Edwin Leifer (May 23, 1893 – September 26, 1948) was a

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. He played for the

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in 1921."Elmer Leifer Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-02-07. In 1922, while playing for the

Little Rock Travelers The Little Rock Travelers were an American minor league baseball team located in Little Rock, Arkansas, and members (1902–1910, 1915–1958, 1960–1961) of the Southern Association, which as a Class A, A1 or Double-A circuit was typically tw ...

of the Class-A

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, Leifer was injured in a collision with teammate

Travis Jackson Travis Calvin Jackson (November 2, 1903 – July 27, 1987) was an American baseball shortstop. In Major League Baseball (MLB), Jackson played for the New York Giants from 1922 through 1936, winning the 1933 World Series, and representing the G ...

, ending Leifer's playing career. Leifer continued to suffer from the effects of the collision in his later life. Leifer committed suicide by swallowing an overdose of

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