Willigrod was born in Marshalltown, Iowa. His father, Edward Willigrod, was an immigrant from Hanover, Prussia who worked as a machinist. His mother, Catharine, was an immigrant from Bavaria. Willigrod had a twin sister, Julia.\n', '

Willigrod played minor league baseball for the Omaha Green Stockings in the Northwestern League in 1879 and then traveled west the California where he played for two seasons with the San Francisco Knickerbockers of the California League. During one of his two seasons with San Francisco, he led the league in runs scored despite compiling a batting average of only .207.\n', '

Between July 15 and August 19, 1882, Willigrod played ten games in Major League Baseball, principally as an outfielder, for the Cleveland Blues and Detroit Wolverines of the National League from July to August 1882. He compiled a .154 batting average in 39 at bats. In his final major league game, he hit a triple and scored four runs, a record that still stands for the most runs scored in a player\'s final major league game.\n', '

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