# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bobby-mathews
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:01:19.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bobby-mathews"
name: "Bobby Mathews"
slug: "bobby-mathews"
description: "Robert T. Mathews was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, the National League of Major League Baseball and the American Association for twenty years beginning in the late 1860s. He is credited as being one of the inventors of the spitball pitch, in each of three major leagues, which was rediscovered or reintroduced to the major leagues after he died. He is also credited with the first legal pitch which broke away from the batter. He is listed at 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) and 140 pounds (64 kg), which is small for a pro athlete even in his time, when the average height of an American male in the mid-19th century was 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m)."
tagline: "Major League Baseball player, umpire (1851-1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bobby_Mathews.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1851-11-21"
deathDate: "1898-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.487366666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Mathews"
    title: "Bobby Mathews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "بوبي ماثيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوبى ماثيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "鮑比·馬修斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ボビー・マシューズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Mathews"
    title: "Bobby Mathews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1566731"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump