American baseball player
Baseball player
Gustavus Brooks (1872 – June 15, 1895) was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1890s.
A native of Alton, Illinois, Brooks played for the Chicago Unions in 1894, and for the Page Fence Giants the following season. He collapsed in the outfield during a game in Hastings, Michigan in 1895 and died two hours later at age 23.[1][2][3]
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