Christy Mathewson - Death and Legacy

Death and Legacy

Two years later, he died in Saranac Lake, New York, of tuberculosis. He is buried at Lewisburg Cemetery in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Bucknell University. Members of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Washington Senators wore black armbands during the 1925 World Series. Mathewson had died on the day the Series began, October 7. According to the Ken Burns' documentary series, Baseball, one of Mathewson's last words were to his wife: Now Jane, I want you to go outside and have yourself a good cry. Don't make it a long one; this can't be helped.

• Christy Mathewson Day is celebrated as a holiday in his hometown of Factoryville, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday closest to his birthday.
• Christy Mathewson Day and Factoryville, PA, are the subjects of the Documentary, "Christy Mathewson Day"
• Bucknell's football stadium is named "Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium".
• The baseball field at Keystone College is named "Christy Mathewson Field."
• Christy Mathewson Park in Factoryville is home to the community's Little League field, as well as basketball courts and other athletic facilities, public gardens, walking trails and a picnic pavilion.
• The former Whittenton Ballfield in Taunton, Massachusetts, is named in memory of Christy Mathewson, who played for the Taunton team in the New England Baseball League before he joined the New York Giants.
• Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver has often been compared with Mathewson.
• Actor Eddie Frierson wrote and performs Matty: An Evening With Christy Mathewson, a biographical one-man play about Mathewson.
• Singer/pianist/songwriter Dave Frishberg's song "Matty" is a sentimental tribute to Christy. The song may be found on Frishberg's albums "Quality Time" and "Let's Eat Home," plus a live version on "Retromania: At the Jazz Bakery," which contains other baseball related songs. Frishberg's liner notes and occasional commentary to his audience help explain the background to many of these songs.
• The band Family Groove Company has a song on their first album Reachin' titled "Christy" that relates some of Mathewson's achievements.
• Mathewson is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash:
• Published in 1983, Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The Celebrant offers a fictional biography about Mathewson from the perspective of Jack Kapp, a Jewish American jewelry designer.

M is for Matty,
Who carried a charm
In the form of an extra
brain in his arm.