Elliott Allardice Bigelow (October 13, 1897 – August 10, 1933) was a right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox.
In 1923, Bigelow played for the Macon Peaches in the South Atlantic League, finishing that year batting .367 over the course of 17 games.
Beginning the 1924 season as a prospective starter for the New Orleans Pelicans during their spring training, Bigelow eventually returned to St. Petersburg where he would bat a league high .388 with 12 home runs, 10 triples, and 30 doubles.
After that league disbanded in August of the same year, Bigelow became a free agent, receiving invitations from several teams, including the Philadelphia Phillies, to train with them in the spring.
There is no question but what he is a natural slugger; his average of over .390 in Birmingham proves that, but he is a big, slow fellow with a mighty poor throwing arm.” Bigelow only played a single season in the major leagues, playing an even 100 games in the 1929 season, beginning on opening day and lasting through the last game of the schedule.
In 1930, Bigelow played for two teams, once again with the Lookouts and for the first time in the Pacific Coast League with the Mission Reds.
Unfortunately, when he was sold to the Mission Reds later that season, his batting average dipped to under .300, the first time in over 10 years (albeit just barely under, at .298).
After his baseball career came to an end, Bigelow took up commercial fishing, working mainly off the west coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico.
Unfortunately, less than a year after his retirement from baseball, Bigelow died of cerebrospinal meningitis on August 10, 1933, at the Tampa Memorial Hospital.