Christy Mathewson

Christy Mathewson is one of those figures who feels less like a player and more like a founding myth of baseball. Seventeen seasons with the New York Giants, nicknames like Big Six and the Christian Gentleman, a college man in a rough-and-tumble era. What strikes me is that he is remembered as much for character as for craft. In a sport then defined by hard living, he became a symbol of dignity on the mound. His death at forty-five was a real loss. I see him as a template for what an athlete role model could be, decades before that idea had a name.

Name (English)

Christy Mathewson

Name (Japanese)

クリスティ・マシューソン

Reading

くりすてぃ・ましゅーそん

Born

August 12, 1880 – October 7, 1925

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon

Origin

Factoryville, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

baseball player / American football player

University

Bucknell University

• Official sitehttp://www.christymathewson.com/news.php
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy%20Mathewson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73086

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• baseball player
• American football player

Last updated

2026-06-21

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