Newspaper Tidbit: Alexander Bennett "Ben" Sanders

Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)

14 April 1889

The careers of few professional ball players are more interesting than that of Sanders, the strapping Philadelphia pitcher who is paired with Clements. He comes of a highly respectable family and resides at Sudley, Prince William county, Va., where he was born. He graduated from Roanoke college with high honors, and left there with the intention of studying for the ministry. He taught a country school for one year, and joined the Philadephias in the spring of 1888.  Last winter he attended Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn., where he is studying to become a civil engineer. Sanders, who is 28 years of age, made a phenomenal record as a pitcher for the Carthapins, a Virginia country nine, which defeated some of the best amateur clubs of the country in 1885 and 1886.  ~ Baltimore Herald.

Ben Sanders (Feb. 16, 1865 - Aug. 29, 1930) is buried in the Sudley United Methodist Church cemetery.