Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sweigert was a Major League Baseball left fielder who played in one game for the Philadelphia Athletics on October 12, 1890. He went 0-1 at the plate, collected a walk and a stolen base. Some sources have listed him as Hampton Sweigert or Ham Sweigert.Sweigert is one of four baseball players known only by their surnames who made their first and only appearances in Major League Baseball in the same game for the Philadelphia Athletics on October 12, 1890. The other three are Sterling, Stafford and McBride. In 2007, the Biographical Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) issued a report indicating that the game was played in Gloucester, New Jersey, and Philadelphia manager Bill Sharsig used four local players (Sterling, Sweigert, Stafford, and McBride) in the game. Bill Carle, the chairman of the SABR committee, wrote: "We have no biographical clues for any of them except for a note that Sterling came from Camden. Since these players have not been positively identified, I am removing all the biographical information we have and we can start from scratch to figure out who they are. Unfortunately, I doubt we will ever be able to identify them.". }
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- Sweigert abstract "Sweigert was a Major League Baseball left fielder who played in one game for the Philadelphia Athletics on October 12, 1890. He went 0-1 at the plate, collected a walk and a stolen base. Some sources have listed him as Hampton Sweigert or Ham Sweigert.Sweigert is one of four baseball players known only by their surnames who made their first and only appearances in Major League Baseball in the same game for the Philadelphia Athletics on October 12, 1890. The other three are Sterling, Stafford and McBride. In 2007, the Biographical Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) issued a report indicating that the game was played in Gloucester, New Jersey, and Philadelphia manager Bill Sharsig used four local players (Sterling, Sweigert, Stafford, and McBride) in the game. Bill Carle, the chairman of the SABR committee, wrote: "We have no biographical clues for any of them except for a note that Sterling came from Camden. Since these players have not been positively identified, I am removing all the biographical information we have and we can start from scratch to figure out who they are. Unfortunately, I doubt we will ever be able to identify them."".