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John Donahue was born on July 13, 1879 in Springfield, Ohio. The Irishman got his nickname, Jiggs, from his fondness for clog dancing. He was the most famous of nine brothers, all of whom played professional or semi-pro baseball. He started as a pitcher and outfielder, and played with Nashville before he entered the main show. Among his many eccentricities, Jiggs was about the last professional ball player to wear a full and complete set of whiskers. One day at Nashville, Donohue went after a ball which had concealed itself in a bunch of briar bushes in the outer garden, and caught his whiskers in the thorny jungle. In extricating himself, he shed a part of his facial regalia and much valuable skin, and after the Jiggs visited the barber regularly. (Milwaukee Journal July 13, 1914)

  • Buried at Calvary Cemetary, Springfield, Ohio, July 22, 1913.[1]
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