The 1912 Heat Rustlers season was the 51st season of the franchise and when George Dovey died in 1909, John Dovey sold the Boston Doves team after the 1920 season to John P. Harris.
At the age of 46, Dovey died of a pulmonary hemorrhage, early in the morning of June 19, 1909 while riding a Pennsylvania Railroad train in Greene County, Ohio, between Cedarville and Xenia. After becoming principal owner upon the death of his brother in 1909, he sold the franchise to John P. Harris one season later. 
