Hank Hearn Goto Baseball Reference for Hank Hearn 2b Majors: No
	Minneapolis Position: 2b First game: August 15, 1888 Last game: August 15, 1888 # of games: 1	Manager Goodling released all players on August 15, 1888 as he was unable to pay them. The amatuer Lyndales club was brought in for the game that day against Kansas City. Identified as "Hurn" in the box score in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on August 16, 1888, but the name is more likely Hearn, as listed in other boxscores for the Lyndales from that time period. Confrimed as Hank Hearn, possibly Henry E. Hearn.

In August 1888, the Minneapolis Millers of the Western Association were in financial trouble. Early in the month they were almost unable to pay the player salaries, but a benefit game kept them going for a little longer. On August 15, 1888, Manager William Gooding released the entire club and brought in an amateur club, the Lyndales, to play the game that day against the Kansas City Blues. Nine players took the field that day with the Lyndales. Two of them - Frank March (rf) and Fred Rehse (p) - had played previously with Minneapolis that season. A third player, Allen (ss), may have been James Allen, an amateur from Minneapolis who pitched one game with Sioux City in July. The other six players - Hurn (2b), Nash (1b), Herkimer (3b), Watson (c), McCrum (lf) and Schoonmaker (cf) - were nothing more than last names in the box score for the game. The Lyndales lost 11-1 to the club that came within a few percentage points of winning the Association Championship that season. They had their one day as professionals and went back to their lives.

The following spring, Frank March and Watson, "the Minneapolis battery", were signed by the Kamloops baseball club (Vancouver Daily World, April 30, 1889, pg. 1). Subsequently, they were joined by several other members of the Lyndales - Hearn, Herchmer, Schoonmaker, and McRum. An article many years later in the Vancouver Province explained: "The next year [1889] the Kamloops had March, and with March was practically the whole of a semi-professional team from Minneapolis, called the Lyndales, after Lyndale avenue in that city where the players lived" (July 13, 1905, pg. 7). "Hurn", who played second base for the Lyndales, was indentified by the Vancouver Province as Hank Hearn, while Henry Hearn is listed in the 1890 "Henderson's British Columbia Gazetter and Directory", for Kamloops as a brakeman for the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

Hearn returned to Minneapolis, where he played for a local club called the Palace in 1890. In 1891, he played for Fargo and St. Cloud. In 1892, he signed to play in the Montana State League, starting the season as the captain of the Bozeman club, which included Charlie Hoover. "Henry Hearn, second base... is said to be one of the finest second basemen in the Northwest" (Anaconda Standard, May 1, 1892, pg. 1). In the second half of the season, he joined Butte, which was managed by Jim Powell, first baseman for Sioux City in 1888. At the end of the 1892 season, he returned to Minneapolis. "Henery Hearn, the well-known local ball player, returned from Montana yesterday... Hearn has an offer from Anson for next year, and will likely accept. He also has an offer from Cincinnati, but he prefers to play ball under Anson" (Minneapolis Daily Times, September 14, 1892). This was the last mention of Hearn in the Minneapolis newspapers.

Matching this, the Minneapolis street guide from 1888 lists Henry E. Hearn living at 1805 Girard Ave, along with Elizabeth Hearn (widow of Stephen), John W. Hearn, Miss Lilly Hearn, and Mary G. Hearn. This Henry Hearn is identified as Henry Patrick Hearn on Ancestry.com, born in Vermont in 1867, with no date of death listed. He lived with his mother Elizabeth and other family members from 1885 until 1892, when he drops from the Minneapolis street directories.

It is possible the original name was O'Hearn, or perhaps Ahern.

Date	Pos	AB	R	BH	2B	3B	HR	SB	PO	A	E	BB	HPB	K
8-15-1888	2b	4	0	1					2	1	1		1
1 Games		4	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	0