He appeared in 131 major league games and compiled a .282 batting average with 22 doubles, four triples, no home runs and 49 RBIs.

[2] His older brother, Mike Dorgan, played ten seasons of Major League Baseball from 1877 to 1890.

[3] Dorgan began his career as a professional baseball player in 1879 with the Holyoke, Massachusetts team where he compiled a .304 batting average.

[4] In 1881, Dorgan played for the Brooklyn Atlantics and New York Mets in the Eastern Championship Association.

The Sporting Life called him "a fine outfielder and a heavy batsman" who had promise, but whose career ended prematurely due to "irregular habits" and "his unconquerable appetite for liquor.

"[5] Dorgan died in June 1891 at age 35, after being found lying inebriated at 2 a.m. with an empty liquor bottle beside him in a stable behind the Kilbourn House in Middletown, Connecticut.