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==Trinity College==
Bradsher attended Trinity College from 1901 to 1904 and graduated
===Tombs===
[[File:Pitcher Arthur Bradsher.jpg|thumb|Pitcher Arthur Bradsher]]▼
In 1903, Bradsher was the principal founder of the Tombs, one of the strongest organizations on the Trinity/Duke campus from 1903 to 1942.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8851735/arthur_bradsher_one_of_the_founders_of/|work=Durham Morning Herald|date=April 7, 1922|page=9|accessdate=July 15, 2018|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|title=Tombs Staged A Dinner Last Night}} {{Open access}}</ref> Its purpose was to promote Varsity and intramural athletics and to improve team sportsmanship and school spirit. Another objective was to firmly cement relations between Trinity and other schools in the field of sports. The Tombs morphed into the Varsity Club in 1945. It combined the strengths from both organizations. Bradsher returned to the campus often to council the Tombs organization.<ref name="duarFeb1951">{{cite magazine |title=Arthur Bradsher, '04, Great Trinity Pitcher, Dies |url=https://archive.org/stream/dukealumniregist371951#page/43/mode/1up |magazine=Duke University Alumni Register |location=Durham, N.C. |date=February 1951 |page=43}}</ref>
===Baseball===
▲[[File:Pitcher Arthur Bradsher.jpg|thumb|Pitcher Arthur Bradsher]]
Bradsher was picked as the top college baseball player in the South in both the 1904 and 1905 seasons by the likes of [[John_Heisman|John Heisman]]. Heisman nicknamed Bradsher “King of the Southern Diamond.”<ref>{{Harvnb|Spence|1954|page=33}}</ref> He [[Letterman (sports)|lettered]] five times at Trinity.<ref>{{Harvnb|Duke University|2018|page=8}}</ref>
====1902====
The Trinity College "strikeout king" captured the hearts of the Southern fans and newspaper reporters after he pitched three shutouts in eight days in April 1902, striking out forty-three batters and allowing a total of three hits.
====1903====
His pitching record for his
====1904====
After beginning the [[1904 Trinity Blue and White baseball team|1904 season]] pitching two no-hitters and on his way to a third, Bradsher took himself out with a cut finger in the eighth inning against
====1905====
[[File:SIAA Championship Team.jpg|thumb|1905 Team]]In 1905, Bradsher missed a [[perfect game]] against [[Mercer Bears|Mercer]] due to a miscue by his [[shortstop]] in the second inning of his no-hit, no walk, ten inning performance.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5605518/the_miracle_at_mercer_arthur_bradsher/|title=A Long Tie Game At Macon|page=9|date=April 8, 1905|work=Atlanta Constitution|accessdate=July 15, 2018|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref> His twenty-two strikeouts in the game was a record that stood until 1965.{{Cn|date=July 2018}}
Heisman chose Bradsher as his premier player and [[Captain (sports)|captain]] for his [[1905 College Baseball All-Southern Team|All-Southern team]]. Heisman was quoted in the [[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|Atlanta Constitution]]: “This young man is beyond all questioning the most prominent player of the season. With most extraordinary ability as pitcher, he combines the advantages of being a good batter and base runner...And, I would have him captain of my team. He has the bearing of a gentleman, the forbearance of a true sportsman, and the ideal temperament of the fighting athlete, ever determined, never dismayed, always strong with a persistent smile to help out. As a captain, he would be a credit and ornament to any team.”<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5807179/heisman_picks_his_1905_all_southern/|page=3|title=All-Southern Team 1905 Selected by J. W. Heisman|date=June 4, 1905|accessdate=July 15, 2018|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|work=Atlanta Constitution}} {{Open access}}</ref>
====Records====
Arthur Bradsher struck out 15 batters on 10 occasions. Seven times he went to the mound and pitched no-hit ball. Five of those appearances were complete games. The pitcher who holds the record for the most no-hitters is Nolan Ryan, who threw seven in his long major league career.
Arthur Bradsher struck out 15 batters on 10 occasions. Bradsher holds 11 single season Duke pitching records: Most strikeouts in a single season (171), most wins in a single season (13), most innings pitched in a season (134), most games started (14), most complete games in a season (14), least hits given up per 9 innings (2.34), least walks per 9 innings (0.29), strikeout to walk ratio (42.75), whip (0.395), shutouts (5), and lowest ERA (0.0746). He holds nine career pitching records: Career games started (58), career wins (42), complete games (53), innings pitched (513), fewest hits per 9 innings (4.28), most career strikeouts (586), most career shutouts (15), most years lettered in a single sport (5) and most years serving as a team captain (3).<ref>{{Harvnb|Duke University|2018|pages=86-89}}</ref> Bradsher has been added to the 2020 ballot for the Duke University Athletics Hall of Fame.<ref>Duke University Hall of Fame Committee Art Chase</ref>▼
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==Personal==
On August 29, 1907, Bradsher married Elizabeth Chadwick Muse.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TD19070902.1.3|date=September 2, 1907|work=Times Dispatch|title=Popular College Athlete Marries|page=3}}</ref>. Four of their five children attended Duke University, His oldest son Charles was a chemistry professor at Duke for forty-five years. Twenty family members and
==Tobacco career==
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In 1945, Bradsher retired from his position as Vice President, at [[Imperial Brands|Imperial Tobacco in Montreal, Canada]], to his 100-acre farm, Summerlea on the [[Neuse River]] near [[New Bern, North Carolina]].<ref>Duke University Alumni Register. Durham, N.C. February 1951. p. 43.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/hrcorpreports/pdfs/I/Imperial_Tobacco_Company_of_Canada_1940.pdf|title=Annual Report of Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, Limited|year=1940}}</ref>
==References==
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