Primary Position: Relief pitcher
Birthplace: Fuquay Springs
First, Middle Names: Thomas Woodrow
Date of Birth: Sept. 9, 1918 Date and Place of Death: Aug. 14, 1947, Greensboro, NC
Burial: Springfield Friends Meeting House Cemetery, High Point, NC
High School: Undetermined
College: Did Not Attend
Bats: R Throws: R Height and Weight: 6-2, 185
Debut Year: 1945 Final Year: 1945 Years Played: 1
Team and Year: Philadelphia Athletics, 1945
Career Summary
G W L Sv ERA IP SO WAR
1 0 0 0 6.00 3 2 0.0
It had been a meaningless game – even in August — between two teams heading nowhere. The dismal, hometown A’s of Martinsville, Virginia, were destined for last place in that 1947 season of the Carolina League, a lowly Class C congregation of eight teams, most in North Carolina, that had formed two years earlier to compete in the subbasement of the minor leagues. The fifth-place Patriots of Greensboro, North Carolina, were little better. The A’s won 9-4 that night, but the outcome made little difference in the final league tally. A game of no athletic significance would however have tragic human consequences.