Old Timer Doyle Quits Game
One of the best players in history, Charles Doyle, has retired from League baseball.
Doyle joined the League in 1892 with the advent of the Second Division, entering with Walsall Town. He was traded to Burton Wanderers (later Burton United) of the First Division during the 1900 season and finished out his career with them, the last two in the lower level. He started his professional baseball career in 1889 with Darwen of the Baseball Alliance, then went to Nottingham Forest in the Alliance in 1891 before landing on Swifts. Whilst on United he played in the first EOI Cup series, which Burton lost to Liverpool.
Doyle was one of the best home run hitters in the League, finishing with 185, hitting ten or more in a season on ten separate occasions as well as leading his division four times, the most recent being just last year, 1911, during which he hit eleven home runs at the age of 44. At the time of his retirement he placed second on the League career home run list, behind only Alistair Bolton who himself hit 268 before quitting the game young.
Doyle also finished his career fourth in games played with 1,876; fourth in hits with 2,439; and thirty third in hits average with .324.
Editor's note: Due to a flaw in the version of OOTP being used for this dynasty, Second Division totals are reflected inaccurately on the BNN player page of the game. Below are Charles Doyle's corrected stats for both D2 and total career: