Dasher Troy

John Joseph "Dasher" Troy (May 8, 1856 – March 30, 1938) was an American professional baseball player from 1877 to 1888. He played five seasons of Major League Baseball, principally as a second baseman, for the Detroit Wolverines (1881–82), Providence Grays, New York Gothams (1883), and the New York Metropolitans (1884-85). He appeared in 292 major league games, 257 of them as a second baseman, and compiled a .243 batting average with 42 doubles, 20 triples, four home runs and 51 runs batted in.

Professional baseball career

Minor leagues Troy began his professional baseball career in 1877 with the New York Alaskas team in the League Alliance. He also played for three different clubs in the Eastern Championship Association during the 1881 season.

Later years As a New York native who played for the Gothams/Giants in their first season in New York, Troy was fondly remembered by New Yorkers. From approximately 1889 to 1900, and with the exception of the 1894 season when he lost his license after an attack on a grandstand gatekeeper, Troy operated the beer concession, sometimes referenced as a saloon or bar, at the Polo Grounds in New York. In September 1900, he opened a café in his old home neighborhood at Tenth Avenue and Thirty-Ninth Street.

Troy was married to Mary E. Flanagan in approximately 1890. Ten years later, Troy was still living in Manhattan, was employed as a bartender and shared the household with wife Mary, daughters, Margaret and Anne, and son, John J. Troy, Jr. In 1920, Troy was still living in Manhattan with his wife, Mary, and son, John, Jr., in Manhattan. By 1930, Troy and his wife had retired and moved to Queens, New York.

Troy died in 1938 after a long illness at age 81 at his home in the South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York. He was buried at the Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens, New York.