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==Death and legacy== [[File:The Christy Mathewson Cottage.jpg|thumb|Mathewson's private "[[Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake|cure cottage]]" in Saranac Lake]] [[File:ChristyMathewsonGraveStone.jpg|thumb|Mathewson's gravesite at [[Lewisburg Cemetery]] in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania]] After contracting tuberculosis, Mathewson moved to the frigid climate of [[Saranac Lake, New York]], in the [[Adirondack Mountains]], where he sought treatment from [[Edward Livingston Trudeau]] at his renowned [[Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium]]. He died in Saranac Lake of tuberculosis on October 7, 1925. Mathewson is buried at [[Lewisburg Cemetery]] in [[Lewisburg, Pennsylvania]], adjacent to [[Bucknell University]]. Members of the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] and the [[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]] wore black armbands during the [[1925 World Series]]. Mathewson had died on the day the series began, October 7. According to ''[[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]'', some of Mathewson's last words were to his wife: "Now Jane, I want you to go outside and have yourself a good cry. Don't make it a long one; this can't be helped." * [[Factoryville, Pennsylvania#Christy Mathewson Day|Christy Mathewson Day]] is celebrated as a holiday in his hometown of Factoryville, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday closest to his birthday. * Christy Mathewson Day and Factoryville, Pennsylvania, are the subjects of the documentary, ''Christy Mathewson Day''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christymathewsondayfilm.com |title=Christy Mathewson Day |publisher=23circles Productions |year=2011 |access-date=November 25, 2013}}</ref> * Bucknell's football stadium is named "[[Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium]]". * The baseball field at [[Keystone College]] is named "Christy Mathewson Field". * Christy Mathewson Park in Factoryville is home to the community's [[Little League]] field, as well as basketball courts and other athletic facilities, public gardens, walking trails, and a picnic pavilion. * The former Whittenton Ballfield in [[Taunton, Massachusetts]], is named in memory of Christy Mathewson, who played for the Taunton team in the New England Baseball League before he joined the New York Giants. * Mathewson is mentioned in the poem "[[Line-Up for Yesterday]]" by [[Ogden Nash]]. It says of Christy “M is for Matty, Who carried a charm In the form of an extra brain in his arm” *F. Scott Fitzgerald refers to Christy Mathewson in his first novel, ''[[This Side of Paradise]]'' (1920).<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Fitzgerald|first1=F. Scott|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZslGpJEmE0C&q=Three-finger+Brown|title=This Side of Paradise|last2=West|first2=James L. W.|date=1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-40234-7|language=en}}</ref> * Jazz pianist [[Dave Frishberg]], composer of several baseball-themed songs, wrote one called "Matty" for Mathewson. * Mathewson is a central character in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's historical novel ''The Celebrant'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=Greenberg|first1=Eric Rolfe|title=The Celebrant: A Novel|date=1983|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|location=Lincoln|isbn=978-0-8032-7037-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/celebrantnovel00gree}}</ref> which chronicles turn-of-the-century American life by weaving together Mathewson's story with the life of an immigrant Jewish family in New York. In 2002, the book was selected as one of the top 100 sports books of all time by ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=McEntegart|first1=Pete|title=The Top 100 Sports Books of All Time|url=https://www.si.com/vault/2002/12/16/334173/the-top-100-sports-books-of-all-time|newspaper=Sports Illustrated Vault | Si.com|publisher=Sports Illustrated|access-date=July 4, 2017}}</ref> * Mathewson's name and memory was honored in the last lines in the 1951 film, [[Angels in the Outfield (1951 film)|Angels in the Outfield]].
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