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Ed Lafitte

Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and soldier (died 1971)

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Born
April 7, 1886
Died
April 12, 1971
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1886

About Ed Lafitte

Edward Francis Lafitte was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Detroit Tigers (1909–12), Brooklyn Tip-Tops (1914–15), and Buffalo Blues (1915). Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, at his family's home located at 319 Bourbon Street, he batted and threw right-handed. That season he became the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter without throwing a shutout in a 6–2 victory over the Kansas City Packers on September 19. Lafitte graduated from Southern Dental College in 1911.

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The world when Ed Lafitte was born

Ed Lafitte was born in 1886. 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.

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentFirst professional baseball game under electric lights
  • Top headlineStatue of Liberty dedicated in New York Harbor
  • Technology milestoneCoca-Cola invented in Atlanta
  • Notable inventionCoca-Cola (originally contained cocaine)
  • World population~1.46B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population55.6M

1886 versus 2026

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

Measure18862026
Population55.6M341 million

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