Philip H. "Buster" Tomney (July 17, 1863 – March 18, 1892) was an American professional baseball player for a period of nine seasons, three of which were at the major league level with the Louisville Colonels of the National League from to . Tomney died in his hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania in 1892 at the age of 28 due to a lung infection brought on by pulmonary phithisis (tuberculosis), and is interred at Aulenbach's Cemetery in Mount Penn, Pennsylvania.

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1863 births

1892 deaths

Major League Baseball shortstops

Louisville Colonels players

19th-century baseball players

Baseball players from Pennsylvania

Reading Actives players

Wilmington Quicksteps (minor league) players

Lancaster Ironsides players

Baltimore Monumentals (minor league) players

Syracuse Stars (minor league baseball) players

Binghamton Crickets (1880s) players

Scranton Miners players

Lincoln Rustlers players

19th-century deaths from tuberculosis

Tuberculosis deaths in Pennsylvania

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