Benjamin Harrison Taylor (April 2, 1889 – November 3, 1946) was a professional baseball player who played

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in the Major Leagues for the 1912 Cincinnati Reds. Prior to that, he pitched for the

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of the

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, until that team disbanded in June 1912. After his Major League stint, he moved to

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and became an

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. He died in an automobile accident, of which he was the sole fatality (his wife and his parents-in-law all survived), in 1946.

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1889 births 1946 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Indiana Cincinnati Reds players Saginaw Wa-was players Indianapolis Hoosiers (minor league) players People from Paoli, Indiana Cincinnati Cams players Road incident deaths in Indiana 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub