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Kelley, Harry 319 pro wins - 277 minor, 42 major
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Kelley, Harry 319 pro wins - 277 minor, 42 major
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1934-5-22 VG profile, with pics. Says he's pitched 10 or 12 doubleheaders in his time in the league. Pitched three in little more than a week last season.
Misc. league talk.
1935-1-21 Atlanta. Landis returned him from Toronto to Atlanta. Crackers fans rejoice - does Kelley?
Atlanta paid Memphis $5000 late last season for Kelley and Toronto drafted him for $4500. Atlanta protested, saying Toronto had drafted Kelley on behalf of Cincinnati so the Reds could avoid paying the major league draft price of $7500.
1935-1-23 Atlanta. Not too old to succeed in majors.
1935-4-22 Atlanta. Has added a curveball in the last two or three years and improved his change of pace. All he had in his early years in the league was a fastball.
1935-6-14 Atlanta. Profile. Has pitched eight doubleheaders in his time in the league and won five of them. Two other times he won the first game and lost the second by one run.
1936-6-29 Syndicated. Good pic. Mediocre profile.
1937-1-21 Richmond (syndicated). VG pic. Had his appendix removed in August of last year. Article wonders why he wasn't drafted by AA or major league team sooner.
Praise from Connie Mack - says he is a fast enough pitcher and smart.
1937-4-08 Memphis. Pic of Kelley looking at pics of himself from his time as a Memphis Chick. Harry Kelley Day is today - Athletics will play exhibition v. Chicks.
Profile.
1958-3-24 Memphis Press-Scimitar. Died at 52. He had been called the "Parkin Kid." One of the greatest pitchers of the SOUA. Described as pigeon-toed. Memories.
1958-3-24 Memphis Press-Scimitar. Service will be held at Parkin Methodist Church tomorrow. Pics as old man.
1958-3-24 Memphis Commercial Appeal. Three good pics. He had been very ill since 1956-11. He farmed in Parkin after his retirement. Good profile.
1971-7-05 Memphis Commercial Appeal.
"The absolute in pleasure was to watch Harry Kelley, the Parkin Kid pitch a doubleheader, preferably against Little Rock. After all these years it strikes this viewer that if the Iron Man Arkansan pitched as many doubleheaders as tradition credits him with, his arm would have fallen off long before he achieved the majors. He did pitch a lot.
Tom Watkins and Frank Longinotti were shrewd operators of the Memphis club, and somehow they managed to have the Chickasaws scheduled at home on almost every Fourth of July. That was THE baseball day, and an overflow at Russwood was a cinch. Nobody stayed in the air conditioning because there wasn't any.
Import For A Cause
Baseball was the key to the Fourth, and if you didn't go to Russwood you went out to Edgewood Park to see the semipros play, or to Hodges Field or Loeb, Field or Bellevue or maybe the Fairgrounds for a look at the Memphis Associated Amateurs. Don't laugh at the MAA. Bill Terry played in the league, and so did quite a few other Memphians, who made it to the majors, but not quite with the success of Terry. The chance to participate wasn't bad, either. Not all of the corner lots were graced by high rises then and if you weren't too much of a dub you could get to play, especially if you owned a glove, bat or ball, which were in scarce supply.
The concentration on baseball was by no means just in Memphis, either. Every small town in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee had its game on the Fourth, usually with a nearby rival. And it is a matter of record that Wynne, wanting to conquer a nearby rival in Arkansas (Was it Brinkley?) borrowed a pretty good pitcher named Ernie Doob from the St. Louis Browns of the American League to get a conquering edge. The Browns weren't doing so well in those days and a little extra outside money was not to be sneered at."
1927-7-04 Road. Split doubleheader with Little Rock.
1928-7-04 Road. Chicks lose both ends of doubleheader v. Little Rock.
1929-7-04 Home. 5316 ATT. Swept doubleheader with Little Rock. Kelley did not pitch.
1930-7-04 Home. 7228 ATT. Split doubleheader with Little Rock. Kelley did not pitch.
1931-7-04 Home. Split doubleheader with Little Rock. Kelley did not pitch.
1932-7-04 Chicks lose both ends of doubleheader v. Little Rock. Kelley pitches last inning of 5-3 loss in 2nd game.
1933-7-04 Got save in 4-3 win in second game of doubleheader v. Little Rock.
May, Kit pro debut at 27 - 63-33 career record. Virginia schoolmaster, called "Prof." .260 career average.
1943-9-06 Won both ends of double-header twice in 1943.
1945-1-07 Memphis. Veverka named as pitcher to league all-star team.
1945-3-19 Memphis. Pic. Veverka is now working in Chicago and will not leave home for baseball.
1945-4-05 Veverka is on the voluntarily retired list and living in Berwyn.
1945-4-27 Berwyn. Frank "Giggs" Veverka has signed with Acme Tools, manager Chuck Straka announced. Profile. Veverka was briefly with BRO in 1946 and might have made the grade had he not had a serious illness.
As Clar Benac is supposed to do most of the pitching in the early part of the season, Veverka will play 1b and relieve.
"With the arrival of June and warm weather, local fans will have ample opportunity to witness the pitching ability of Veverka for the Acmes have scheduled a number of twilight games at Berwyn Field and also several traveling night contests under the lights.
Veverka is a Berwyn boy, but sport fans from this vicinity have had scant opportunity to see him in action because Frank left every spring to play minor league ball and didn't return home until late in the fall. This year he hopes to make up for lost time."
1945-8-31 Veverka will join the Chicks for the last week of the season if he can get leave from his job. Described as chunky.
1945-9-02 Veverka promised to give word if he could get leave from his job but no word from him has come. Ah well.
1960-9-05 Press-Scimitar. Memories. Pic with his two kids. He only pitched in vacation time in 1947 and was 3-1. He now lives in Glenbard IL and is a tool-dye maker at the Temple Steele Co. Plant. He visited Memphis last week and was distressed at the low turnout at the Chicks game.
1941-8-22 Memphis. Won both ends of doubleheader 5-0 and 8-5 v. the Little Rock Travelers at Russwood Park. Shades of Harry Kelley. 1500 ATT.
1941-8-22 Memphis. Won both ends of doubleheader 5-0 and 8-5 v. the Little Rock Travelers at Russwood Park. Shades of Harry Kelley. 1500 ATT.
Had pitched one previous doubleheader at Cordele GA, winning the first and losing the second.
Good pic captioned "It's 'Iron-Man Frank' Now."
1942-8-27 Birmingham. Split double-header 8-3 and 1-4 v. Knoxville.
1943-7-15 Memphis. Won both ends of doubleheader 11-0 and 5-0, allowing three hits in each game. No Atlanta player even reached 3rd. Described as chunky and having a perpetual smile. Veverka has won 8 straight games and thrown 24 consecutive scoreless innings.
Veverka got three hits in 1st game and two in 2nd - almost as many hits as entire Atlanta team.
"So it was no small wonder that the 1425 fans at Russwood Park rose and shouted like 14,000 at the end, that his teammates nearly wrung the glove hand off the guy, that Mrs. Veverka and Little Frankie got almost as many congratulations. But he was the first guy out of the clubhouse, to go on his way to his job that allows him to play with the Chicks only when they're at home."
Pep Rambert, Atlanta pitcher who pitched both ends of doubleheader v. Memphis last week, was knocked out in 1st game.
Pic.
1943-5-14 Lost first game of doubleheader 4-3 and won the second 10-6 v. New Orleans before 2674 fans. Veverka batted clean-up both games.
"His feat was all the more remarkable in that he has been playing first base for the past week and although listed as a pitcher, has appeared in every Memphis home game. He's the guy that's listed as a part-time player.
1943-7-15 Memphis. P.1 summary. Veverka is a defense worker at the Fisher Aircraft plant
1943-7-15 Chattanooga. AP. The doubleheader took a combined 2:34, allowing Veverka to make his 11:30 shift at the airplane factory.
"Frank is one of the ball players who retained his defense job this summer and pitches for his team only when it is at home. Apparently the rest spells in between are not hurting his arm."
1943-7-16 Atlanta. Veverka throws three shutout innings in relief in first game of doubleheader to get win in 7-5 game. Was 2 for 2 with 2 runs scored at the plate. Veverka originally came in to bat for starter. Pinch-hit in 2nd game of doubleheader but did not get hit.
1943-8-29 5533 ATT for Pete Gray day. Veverka almost stole the show, winning both ends of the doubleheader 2-1 and 3-2, and batting 2 for 4. I say almost because what Pete Gray did was:
"Lash out five successive singles in the last five of his seven times at bat;
Make an unassisted double play:
Slide home with the first run of the second game on a short fly to left on which a perfect throw was made;
Steal a base;
Handle seven chances in center field flawlessly.
Naturally Pete was the biggest contributor to the Chicks' double defeat of the Smokies, 1 to 0 and 3 to 2, a twin licking that all but smothered the pennant chances of the team piloted by Memphis Buddy Lewis. Those were two fine games and between them Pete got among other things a goat, two $100 War Bonds, numerous gifts and two- huge sacks full of cash, amounting to $515.01, in addition to a number of checks."
Pic of Pete Gray with goat.
1943-9-06 Won 12th game.
1944-5-07 Sun. Was off-work for Sunday; took advantage to travel to Little Rock and win both ends of double-header.
1944-5-11 Thur. Beat Birmingham 2-0 as Pete Gray homered. 1843 ATT.
1944-5-14 Sun. Won 7-3 in 1st game of double-header v. Birmingham. His 5th straight win and his fourth in eight days.
1944-8-22 Won 3-2 13-inning game for 13th victory. Also homered. 2081 ATT.
1949-7-18 Won on Saturday and Sunday for Benton Harbor Buds.
1934-5-24 Nashville. Talk.
1934-12-12 Atlanta Crackers pitching stats talk.
1935-6-11 Atlanta. Profile of Fred Hoffman, 40-year-old Memphis Chicks catcher and manager.
1935-9-16 Nashville. Joe Martin of Oxnard CA, 1b, played every inning of every game for Nashville Volunteers.
League all-star team chosen by managers for United Press - listed.
2nd of series of four articles comparing Atlanta and Nashville clubs, rivals in first round of playoffs. Today's article compares the infields. W/ pics.
1936-8-31 Nashville. Ray Starr failed in attempt to win both ends of doubleheader yesterday. The most recent pitcher to win both ends of a doubleheader was J. Benson Brillheart, 1934.
1943-5-15 Memphis. Knoxville owner, Robert G. (Bob) Allen, died. He was a former major-leaguer. Entered pro ball in 1887.
1943-9-06 League talk.
1945-1-07 Memphis. Veverka named as pitcher to league all-star team.
1950-7-24 Memphis Chicks old-timers will play three-inning exhibition v. current squad. Profiles and memories of old-timers.
Iron men
1941-8-23 Three in one month. Besides Barrett and Veverka, Buck Marrow of Chattanooga did it.
1941-8-17 Charley (Red) Barrett won both ends of double-header for Birmingham
Iron men
1941-8-23 Three in one month. Besides Barrett and Veverka, Buck Marrow of Chattanooga did it.
1941-8-17 Charley (Red) Barrett won both ends of double-header for Birmingham
1943-9-06 Dick Coffman split double-header for Knoxville. Only made it five innings into the 2nd game.
1944-8-22 Oliverio Ortiz split double-header for Chattanooga Ortiz, Oliverio 1944 WSH - two-way at times
1944-8-22 Oliverio Ortiz split double-header for Chattanooga Ortiz, Oliverio 1944 WSH - two-way at times
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