Charles "Kid" Nichols - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

Charles ”Kid” Nichols ranks among the game's all-time winners, totaling 360 victories over a 15-year Major League career. As a 20-year-old rookie in 1890, he led the Boston Beaneaters with 27 victories. He went on to win 30 or more games a record seven times, compiling 10 straight years of 20 or more wins and leading the league in victories in three consecutive seasons (1896-98). Remarkably, he completed 531 of the 561 games he started. In his first nine seasons with Boston, he sparked the club to five league championships.

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Description: Charles A. “Kid” Nichols was born in Madison, Wisconsin on September 14, 1869 and went on to play Major League Baseball, beginning with the Bost Beaneaters in 1890. He went 27–19 with a 2.23 ERA and 222 strikeouts and began a string of ten consecutive seasons with 20 wins or more. Nichols also had a major league record seven 30 win seasons in this time (1891 – 1894, 1896 – 1898) with a career high of 35 in 1892. After the 1901 season, Nichols purchased an interest in a minor league franchise in Kansas City. He left the Beaneaters to manage and pitch for the Kansas City club, where he won a total of 48 games in 1902 and 1903. After a two year hiatus from the major leagues, Nichols returned to the 20 win plateau for the eleventh and final time in his career in 1904 for a new team, the St. Louis Cardinals. He finished his career in 1906 with the Philadelphia Phillies, who picked him up off waivers in 1905. Nichols retired with 361 wins, a total exceeded at the time only by Cy Young, 208 losses, 1,868 strikeouts and a 2.95 ERA. He was a part of five National League pennant winners, all with the Boston Beaneaters (1891–93, 1897, 1898). His 361 victories ranks 7th all-time, and his 5056 1/3 innings pitched ranks 11th all-time. “The Kid” was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949. He died in Kansas City, Missouri on April 11, 1953 and is buried in the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City. Date of birth: 09/14/1869 Date of death: 04/11/1953 Area of notoriety: Sports Marker Type: Horizontal Marker Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Daily - Dawn to Dusk Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link]

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