Alfred Lawson
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Alfred William Lawson （March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954） was a professional baseball player, aviator and utopian philosopher.
He was a baseball player, manager, and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the U.S. aircraft industry.
He published two early aviation trade journals.
He is frequently cited as the inventor of the airliner and was awarded several of the first air mail contracts, which he ultimately could not fulfill.
He founded the Lawson Aircraft Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to build military training aircraft and later the Lawson Airplane Company in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to build airliners.
The crash of his ambitious Lawson L-4 "Midnight Liner" during its trial flight takeoff on May 8, 1921, ended his best chance for commercial aviation success.
In 1904 he wrote a utopian novel, Born Again, in which he developed the philosophy which later became Lawsonomy.
He made one start for the Boston Beaneaters and two for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys during the 1890 season.
His minor league playing career lasted through 1895.
He later managed in the minors from 1905 to 1907.
In 1908 he started a new professional baseball league known as the Union Professional League.
The league took the field in April but folded one month later owing to financial difficulties.
An early advocate or rather evangelist of aviation, in October 1908 Lawson started the magazine Fly to stimulate public interest and educate readers in the fundamentals of the new science of aviation.
It sold for 10 cents a copy from newsstands across the country.
In 1910, moving to New York City, he renamed the magazine ...
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