Doc Crandall, a player with the New York Giants baseball team, appeared in the Thanhouser -Princess film, The Final Game, which depicted highlights from the last game of the 1913 World Series, played in New York City on October 11, 1913.
Doc Crandall
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 117 words.
James Otis (“Doc”) Crandall was born on October 8, 1887 in Wadena, Indiana. He played major league baseball for 10 years and was in three World Series contests (1911, 1912, and 1913). Standing just over 5’10” tall, he weighed 180 pounds.
In the final game of the 1913 World Series, filmed by Thanhouser, he batted for Mathewson in the ninth inning and grounded out to second base. Crandall died on August 17, 1951 in Bell, California.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “CRANDALL, Doc.” thanhouser.org/research/people/doc-crandall/