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Matt Kilroy

Matt Kilroy, American baseball player (died 1940)

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Born
June 21, 1866
Died
March 2, 1940
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1866

About Matt Kilroy

Matthew Aloysius "Matches" Kilroy was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. During his rookie season in 1886, he had 513 strikeouts, which remains the MLB single-season record. On August 20, Kilroy and Cyclone Miller of the Philadelphia Quakers hurled opposing one-hitters, the first time this ever occurred, though it has since been duplicated four times. That season, he pitched 447 innings and had a win–loss record of 29–22 with a 0.97 earned run average and 363 strikeouts. Although he had a disappointing record of 29 wins and 34 losses, he set a mark that was unequalled in major league pitching.

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The world when Matt Kilroy was born

Matt Kilroy was born in 1866. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1866

  • Best-selling bookCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineReconstruction era begins in the South
  • Technology milestoneTransatlantic telegraph cable successfully laid
  • World population~1.46B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderAndrew Johnson
  • U.S. population34.0M

1866 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Matt Kilroy's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18662026
Population34.0M341 million

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