John Houseman (baseball)

John Houseman
Utility player
Born: (1870-01-10)January 10, 1870
Netherlands
Died: November 4, 1922(1922-11-04) (aged 52)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Batted: Unknown
Threw: Unknown
MLB debut
September 11, 1894, for the Chicago Colts
Last MLB appearance
October 3, 1897, for the St. Louis Browns
MLB statistics
Batting average.253
Home runs0
Runs batted in25
Stats at Baseball Reference 
Teams

John Franklin Houseman (January 10, 1870 – November 4, 1922) was a Major League Baseball player. He played in 1894 for the Chicago Colts, and in 1897 for the St. Louis Browns, primarily as a second baseman.

Houseman was born in the Netherlands, and his family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan and later Chicago, Illinois, before he began his professional playing career.[1]

Houseman was the second Dutch-born player in the major leagues, following Rynie Wolters, debuting for the Colts in 1894.[2][3] Houseman played in four games for Chicago, filling in for the ill Bill Dahlen,[1] then 80 games for St. Louis. He also played in the minor leagues from 1891 to 1899.[4]

Iroquois Theatre fire

On December 30, 1903, Houseman and fellow player Charlie Dexter were in a box watching the show at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago when the Iroquois Theatre fire broke out. They reportedly broke down a locked door, rescuing a number of people.[5][6][7][8]

Sources

  1. 1 2 "Where Houseman, the general utility man has played before". The Washington Post. February 17, 1895. p. 8. Retrieved May 26, 2026.
  2. ↑ Connor, Joe (January 13, 2006). "Inside The Netherlands". ESPN. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Players by birthplace: Netherlands". Baseball Reference. Retrieved May 26, 2026.
  4. ↑ "John Houseman Minor Leagues Statistics". Baseball Reference. Retrieved May 26, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Heroes of the Iroquois Fire". Baseball History Daily. August 7, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Frank Houseman and Charles Dexter helped save fellow theater goers at Iroquois". iroquoistheater.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 26, 2026.
  7. ↑ Hatch, Anthony P. (2003). Tinder box : the Iroquois Theatre disaster, 1903. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers. pp. 110, 111. ISBN 978-0-89733-514-0.
  8. ↑ Brandt, Nat (2003). Chicago death trap : the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903. Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 43, 44, 45. ISBN 978-0-8093-2490-3.
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