Arthur Clark Ball (April 1876 – December 26, 1915) was an American

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player from

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. Ball played parts of two seasons in the Majors; one game for the 1894

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, and 32 games for the 1898

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. After his professional baseball career ended after 1913, he moved to Chicago, where he was a nightwatchman. Ball died at the age of 39 in Chicago of liver

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and peritonitis with pulmonary

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, and is interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery.

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