Baseball in Paducah

Player Roster

Players who played for teams in Paducah, Kentucky, during its tenure as a Mississippi-Ohio Valley League city (the MOV is a Midwest League predecessor). This list includes all players and coaching staff members I can identify, and selected front office staff. There are almost certainly players missing from this list, as the available sources are known to be incomplete.

Players who played in Paducah for both MOV seasons are listed twice.

48 different players are listed on this page (1 of whom played in the majors), as are 6 non-playing personnel.

My intention is to include everyone who wore a Paducah uniform on an MOV diamond. While the information here is intended to be both complete and accurate, it's likely that there are omissions and the scale of the project guarantees errors; there's a lot of data here, from a variety of sources, all of which was originally in another format.

I will correct errors, or fill in missing birthdates and uniform numbers as I learn of them. Feel free to help; just drop me a line. Thanks.

There's more information about the MWL Roster project on my blog, A Dabbler's Journal.

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Socrates Anthony        R/? 5-08 155    00/00/1925      N/A             1949            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Don Black               L/? 5-11 180    00/00/1924      N/A             1950            
        William Boeschen        ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1949            
        Polk Brooks             ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1949    President       
        Polk Brooks             ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950    President       

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Doug Campbell           R/? 6-01 190    00/00/1929      N/A             1949            
        Bill Craig              ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Gil Dailey              R/? 6-03 210    00/00/1929      N/A             1949            
        Walt DeFreitas          R/? 5-08 172    01/19/1918      N/A             1950    Manager 
        Jack Derousse           R/? 5-10 175    00/00/1931      N/A             1950            
        Barry Dosser            R/? 6-00 156    00/00/1928      N/A             1950            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Jim Frey                L/? 5-08 170    05/26/1931      N/A             1950            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        J.B. Garland            R/? 5-10 156    00/00/1928      N/A             1950            
        Jack Gibson             L/? 6-03 193    00/00/1928      N/A             1949            
        Bill Goodwin            R/? 5-10 152    00/00/1927      N/A             1949    P       

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Jim Hardcastle          ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1949            
        Enoch Hawley            ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950    OF      
        Charles Heistand        ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            
        Carl Hrovatic           R/? 6-00 180    00/00/1930      N/A             1949            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Mel Ivy (Ivanski)       R/? 5-11 160    04/28/1914      N/A             1950            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Steve Karas             R/? 5-11 170    00/00/1929      N/A             1950            
        Eddie Kearse            R/R 6-01 195    02/23/1916      N/A             1949    Manager MLB
        Paul Keeling            L/? 5-10 155    00/00/1932      N/A             1949            
        Dick Kelly              R/? 6-02 180    00/00/1928      N/A             1949            
        Warren Kerr             R/? 5-10 157    00/00/1929      N/A             1949            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Gene Leach              R/? 6-00 165    00/00/1927      N/A             1949            
        Clyde Logsdon           ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            
        Harold Loughary         ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            
        Joe Lyles               ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            
        Hillman Lyons           ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1949    GM      

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Dick Martz              L/? 5-11 190    00/00/1928      N/A             1949            
        Dick Martz              L/? 5-11 190    00/00/1928      N/A             1950            
        Ralph McRight           ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950    GM      
        Burl Moffitt            ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Stan Nassif             R/? 6-01 185    00/00/1926      N/A             1950            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Art Oliver              R/? 5-08 170    00/00/1925      N/A             1949            
        Leonard Owens           ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Caroll Peterson         R/? 5-11 175    00/00/1919      N/A             1949    Manager 
        Vic Petkus              R/? 5-11 175    00/00/1926      N/A             1949            
        Max Pfeifer             L/? 5-11 165    00/00/1931      N/A             1950            
        Charles Popovich        R/? 6-00 175    00/00/1928      N/A             1950            
        Charlie Pugh            ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1949            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Billy Queen             R/R 6-01 185    11/28/1928      N/A             1949            MLB

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Bob Radomski            R/? 6-03 190    00/00/1930      N/A             1949            
        Jim Rudolph             R/? 6-01 133    00/00/1929      N/A             1949            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Bill Schambon           L/? 5-11 175    00/00/1925      N/A             1950            
        Dom Serafini            R/? 6-01 185    00/00/1929      N/A             1949            
        Russ Sing               ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            
        Bill Smithpeters        ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            
        Reginald Spragge        ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/0000      N/A             1950            
        Wade Stalions           R/? 5-07 145    00/00/1929      N/A             1949            
        Wade Stalions           R/? 5-07 145    00/00/1929      N/A             1950            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        John Tarver             R/? 6-02 185    00/00/1931      N/A             1949            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        John VanMeter           ?/? 0-00 000    00/00/1929      N/A             1949            

 #      Name                    B/T Ht   Wt     DOB             Organization    Year    Pos
        Bob Wenning             R/? 6-01 200    00/00/1929      N/A             1950            
        Lee Westover            L/? 5-11 155    00/00/1927      N/A             1950    P       
        Howard Wilkes           R/? 5-08 165    00/00/1929      N/A             1949            

This list was compiled from a number of sources, including those listed below. It was checked against both Pat Doyle's Professional Baseball Player Database and SABR's Minor League Statistics Database. Inevitably, there are errors; those are mine.

Sources

• Assorted Sporting News Baseball Guides and Registers.
• Assorted Baseball Blue Books and related publications.
• Yearbooks and scorecard inserts in my collection.