1894 by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview
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slow start in 1898, he was released after 35 games. He was now 31 years old, not very old, but not a youngster by baseball standards.
There is another explanation, this writer believes more plausible. In 1895 Tuck was leading the league in hitting with a
.411 batting average through August. By the tail end of 1895 and the beginning of 1896, Turner had lost his batting touch and so was traded to St. Louis for Duff Cooley. According to accounts in the defunct sports journal, “The Sporting Life,” Turner contracted malaria with recurrent attacks in 1897 and 1898.
Turner continued to play baseball in the minor leagues for another eight seasons, but never returned to the major leagues.
His first year in the minors was in 1899 with Kansas City of the top minor circuit Western League, which in 1900 would become the American League. From 1900 through 1906 Turner played in the competitive Eastern League, Connecticut State League, and New England League.
With his playing career behind him in the first decade of the twentieth century, Turner worked as a laborer in various locations throughout New York City. He and Louise and their two sons, lived both in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In the early 1930s, due to Louise’s declining health they returned to Staten Island