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Casey Hageman

Baseball ∙ Beaver Falls

Casey Hageman was born May 12, 1887, in Mount Oliver, PA. He grew up in Beaver Falls, PA, and graduated from Beaver Falls High School.

In 1906, Casey pitched for an independent baseball team in Waynesburg, PA. In 1907, he began pitching for Uniontown of the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Maryland League. Casey later had stints with minor league clubs in Grand Rapids, Denver, and Jersey City.

After graduating from Geneva College in 1911, Casey made his Major League Baseball debut on September 18, 1911, pitching a complete game for the Boston Red Sox in a 4-1 loss to the Cleveland Naps (nka the Cleveland Indians) at the Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston.

On April 9, 1912, Casey was the star of the first game played at Boston's Fenway Park, which was an exhibition game against the Harvard Crimson baseball team that ended in the middle of the seventh inning. Casey pitched a one-hit complete game 2-0 win for Boston and drove in the first two runs in Fenway Park history.

Casey played another season in the Major Leagues, in 1914, pitching 12 games for the St. Louis Cardinals and 16 games for the Chicago Cubs.

Overall, Casey played three seasons in the Major Leagues, pitching in 32 games, including 11 as a starter, for the Boston Red Sox in 1911 and 1912 and for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs in 1914. As a Major Leaguer, Casey posted a 3-7 won-loss record with a 3.07 ERA and tossed four complete games while striking out 47 batters in 120.1 innings.

Highlights of Casey's baseball career include two no-hitters in the minor leagues, a complete game victory in an exhibition game at the Fenway Park opener, and a 4-for-4 day at the plate while pitching 7 innings of relief to win a game for the Cubs in 1914.

Kurt Moritz "Casey" Hageman died April 1, 1964, at age 76, in New Bedford, PA. He is buried in Grand Rapids, MI.