Joseph A. "Old Hoss" Ardner (February 27, 1858 – September 15, 1935) was a
second baseman
In baseball and softball, second baseman, abbreviated 2B, is a fielding position in the Infielder, infield, between Baseball field#Second base, second and Baseball field#First base, first base. The second baseman often possesses quick hands and f ...
in
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...
(MLB). He played two non-consecutive seasons for Cleveland teams – the
Cleveland Blues in and the
Cleveland Spiders
The Cleveland Spiders were an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The team competed at the major league level from 1887 to 1899, first for two seasons as a member of the now-defunct American Association (AA), followe ...
in .
He was buried at
Woodland Cemetery
A woodland cemetery is a cemetery where the original landscape, with existing trees, is given much influence on the landscape architecture of the cemetery. A woodland cemetery is designed so that the landscape is given a more prominent position, ...
in Cleveland.
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1858 births
1935 deaths
19th-century baseball players
19th-century American sportsmen
Baseball players from Ohio
Major League Baseball second basemen
Cleveland Spiders players
Cleveland Blues (NL) players
People from Mount Vernon, Ohio
Altoona (minor league baseball) players
Reading Actives players
Springfield, Ohio (minor league baseball) players
Scranton Indians players
Oswego Starchboxes players
Topeka (minor league baseball) players
Kansas City Blues (baseball) players
St. Joseph Clay Eaters players
Tacoma (minor league baseball) players
Jamestown (minor league baseball) players
Atlanta Firecrackers players
Johnstown Terrors players
Akron Summits players
Sharon Ironmongers players
Schenectady Dorpians players
Youngstown Puddlers players
Burials at Woodland Cemetery (Cleveland)
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