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Robert Edgar "Ed" Willett Birth: Mar. 7, 1884, Norfolk, Virginia, USA Death: May 10, 1934 Wellington, Kansas, USA Major League Baseball Player. He was a right-handed pitcher who spent 10 seasons in the majors, mostly with the Detroit Tigers. Purchased by the Tigers from the Wichita Jobbers of the Western Association in August of 1906, he made his major league debut in September of that season in a 2-0 complete game loss to the White Sox at Bennett Park in Detroit. He appeared in just 13 games his first two seasons, pitching to a 1-8 record during that time. 1908 would be his breakout season, as he pitched to a 15-8 record and 2.28 ERA. He did all of this despite an ankle injury that threatened to curtail his season. Exceptionally strong and powerfully built, Detroit manager Hughie Jennings once remarked, "Ed is always out there keeping the boys steady. He takes the ball whenever he's told and never seems to tire." His best season was 1909 when he had a 21-10 record with a 2.34 ERA. A fellow southerner like his teammate Ty Cobb, Willett nonetheless chose to socialize with teammates such as George Mullin, Ed Killian and Matty McIntyre, who were part of an anti-Cobb faction on the club. Pitching out of the bullpen, he appeared in 2 games during the 1909 World Series, allowing 3 hits and 1 unearned run in 7.2 innings of work. After 8 seasons and 96 wins in a Detroit uniform, he jumped his contract and signed with the newly formed Federal League's St. Louis Terriers. Unlike many players who's stats improved by moving to the new league, Willett digressed. He would go a combined 6-19 during his two year stay in St. Louis. Given his release in September of 1915, he would go on to pitch in the minors for 4 more seasons, making stops with Memphis and New Orleans of the Southern Association and Salt Lake City of the PCL. After his retirement, he worked as a carpenter and continued to coach amateur baseball teams. He died from a raptured aortic aneurysm at the age of 50. Over the course of his career, he accrued a 102-99 record with a 3.04 ERA and 5 saves in 274 games. (bio by: Frank Russo)

Hugh Stanley "Hughie" Miller (December 22, 1886 to December 24, 1945) was a Major League Baseball player. Miller played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1911 and the St. Louis Terriers of the Federal League in 1914 and 1915. He batted and threw right-handed. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died in Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.

"Let His Loyalty and Devotion be a Lesson to Us All" Bobby was a Skye Terrier whose master, John Gray, died in 1858. Bobby was so devoted to his master that for fourteen years Bobby lay on the grave in Greyfriars Cemetery , leaving only for food. Baroness Angelia Georgina Burdett-Coutts, President of the Ladies Committee of the RSPCA, visited Edinburgh on several occasions to see Bobby. The Baroness received permission from the City Council to erect a granite fountain with a statue of Bobby on top by the graveyard as a lasting memorial to the loyal little terrier Bobby. The original sculpture is in the Museum of Edinburgh. Greyfriars Bobby -- Download the classic 1912 book by Eleanor Atkinson from the ManyBooks.net website. (Digitized by Project Gutenberg.) Greyfriars Bobby -- 1961 Disney movie by Internet Movie Database Greyfriars Bobby -- Movie released in the UK in 2006 Greyfriars Bobby -- Website

Hi, this photo has been mentioned in a discussion thread in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

How weird. I was just reading about Greyfriars Bobby last night in my daughter's school book!

Superb, thank you for sharing this fine work

Wow. I didn't know anything about this until I saw this photo. What a touching story.