Sweetbread Bailey Explained

Sweetbread Bailey
Position:Pitcher
Bats:Right
Throws:Right
Birth Date:12 February 1895
Birth Place:Joliet, Illinois
Death Place:Joliet, Illinois
Debutleague:MLB
Debutdate:May 23
Debutyear:1919
Debutteam:Chicago Cubs
Finalleague:MLB
Finaldate:June 11
Finalyear:1921
Finalteam:Brooklyn Robins
Statleague:MLB
Stat1label:Win–loss record
Stat1value:4–7
Stat2label:Earned run average
Stat2value:4.59
Stat3label:Strikeouts
Stat3value:35
Teams:

Abraham Lincoln "Sweetbread" Bailey (February 12, 1895 – September 27, 1939) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Robins from 1919 to 1921. He also served in the military in 1917 during World War I.

He died at the age of 44 in his hometown of Joliet, Illinois of cancer of his pituitary gland, and is interred at Elmhurst Cemetery.