Position: Pinch hitter, Leftfield
Birthplace: Mount Olive
First, Last Names: Morris Woodrow
Date of Birth: Sept. 13, 1915 Date and Place of Death: March 18, 1955, Sarasota, Fla.
Burial: Appomattox Cemetery, Hopewell, Va.
High School: Undetermined
College: Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, NC
Bats: L Throws: R Height and Weight: 6-1, 188
Debut Year: 1939 Final Year: 1945 Years Played: 5
Teams and Years: Washington Senators, 1939-41; Brooklyn Dodgers, 1944-45; Boston Braves, 1945
Career Summary
G AB H R RBI HR BA. OBP. SLG. WAR
106 262 70 36 32 3 .267 .317 .351 -0.2
Morrie Aderholt could hit a ball pretty good. Catching one, though, was another matter.
“He’s the world’s worst third baseman,” Brooklyn Dodgers’ President Branch Rickey bluntly told the press shortly after he brought Aderholt up from the minors in September 1944.[I]