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Player From To G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG SB CS Date Place of Death +-------------------+---------+----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----------+--------------+ Bob Allison 1958-1970 1541 5032 811 1281 216 53 256 796 795 1033 .255 .358 .471 84 50 1995-04-09 Rio Verde Les Barnhart 1928-1930 3 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .200 .200 .200 0 0 1971-10-07 Scottsdale Monty Basgall 1948-1951 200 512 52 110 15 3 4 41 46 51 .215 .282 .279 1 0 2005-09-22 Sierra Vista Ray Bates 1913-1917 154 515 51 120 20 9 2 70 24 48 .233 .277 .318 15 0 1970-08-15 Tucson Alex Beam 1889-1889 2 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 .167 .167 .333 0 0 1938-04-17 Nogales Rod Beck 1991-2004 629 19 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 10 .211 .211 .211 0 0 2007-06-23 Phoenix Clarence Beers 1948-1948 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2002-12-06 Tucson Joe Black 1952-1957 175 96 5 13 0 0 0 9 1 38 .135 .144 .135 0 0 2002-05-17 Scottsdale Don Blasingame 1955-1966 1444 5296 731 1366 178 62 21 308 552 462 .258 .329 .327 105 60 2005-04-13 Fountain Hills Emmett Bowles 1922-1922 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1959-09-03 Flagstaff Dud Branom 1927-1927 30 94 8 22 1 0 0 13 2 5 .234 .250 .245 2 1 1980-02-04 Sun City Sammy Byrd 1929-1936 745 1700 304 465 101 10 38 220 198 178 .274 .350 .412 17 10 1981-05-11 Mesa Cam Carreon 1959-1966 354 986 113 260 43 4 11 114 97 117 .264 .331 .349 3 4 1987-09-02 Tucson Moose Clabaugh 1926-1926 11 14 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 .071 .133 .143 0 0 1984-07-11 Tucson Jocko Conlan 1934-1935 128 365 55 96 18 4 0 31 33 13 .263 .328 .334 5 5 1989-04-16 Scottsdale Walker Cooper 1940-1957 1473 4702 573 1341 240 40 173 812 309 357 .285 .332 .464 18 1 1991-04-11 Scottsdale Lou Criger 1896-1912 1012 3202 337 709 86 50 11 342 309 0 .221 .295 .290 58 0 1934-05-14 Tucson Art Daney 1928-1928 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1988-03-11 Phoenix Mike Darr 1999-2001 188 542 63 148 28 5 5 67 67 135 .273 .353 .371 17 4 2002-02-15 Phoenix George Darrow 1934-1934 17 15 3 2 2 0 0 0 4 6 .133 .316 .267 0 0 1983-03-24 Sun City Ted Davidson 1965-1968 114 31 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 19 .000 .031 .000 0 0 2006-09-01 Bullhead City Ike Davis 1919-1925 164 609 110 143 32 10 0 65 73 69 .235 .324 .320 19 14 1984-04-02 Tucson Bill DeLancey 1932-1940 219 598 79 173 32 10 19 85 85 74 .289 .380 .472 1 0 1946-11-28 Phoenix Mal Eason 1900-1906 130 356 17 43 3 0 0 15 10 0 .121 .147 .129 2 0 1970-04-16 Douglas Ralph Erickson 1929-1930 8 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .250 .250 .250 0 0 2002-06-27 Chandler Rags Faircloth 1919-1919 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1953-10-05 Tucson Warren Fitzgerald 1891-1892 38 127 16 21 3 2 1 11 15 46 .165 .264 .244 3 0 1930-11-07 Phoenix Danny Frisella 1967-1976 351 78 3 14 1 0 0 4 4 25 .179 .220 .192 2 0 1977-01-01 Phoenix Earl Grace 1929-1937 627 1877 169 493 83 10 31 251 185 130 .263 .331 .367 1 0 1980-12-22 Phoenix Bert Graham 1910-1910 8 26 1 3 2 1 0 5 1 0 .115 .148 .269 0 0 1971-06-19 Cottonwood +-------------------+---------+----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----------+--------------+ Player From To G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG SB CS Date Place of Death +-------------------+---------+----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----------+--------------+ George Grantham 1922-1934 1444 4989 912 1508 292 93 105 712 717 526 .302 .392 .461 132 53 1954-03-16 Kingman Hal Griggs 1956-1959 107 79 5 7 1 1 0 4 3 45 .089 .131 .127 0 1 2005-05-10 Tucson Charlie Grimm 1916-1936 2166 7917 908 2299 394 108 79 1078 578 410 .290 .341 .397 57 44 1983-11-15 Scottsdale Red Hardy 1951-1951 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2003-08-15 Phoenix John Henry 1910-1918 688 1920 161 397 54 15 2 171 244 189 .207 .303 .254 55 5 1941-11-24 Fort Huachuca Herb Herring 1912-1912 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1964-04-22 Tucson Otto Hess 1902-1915 280 714 63 154 21 9 5 58 27 54 .216 .248 .291 4 0 1926-02-25 Tucson Carl Hubbell 1928-1943 535 1288 95 246 30 2 4 101 33 172 .191 .212 .227 1 0 1988-11-21 Scottsdale Roy Johnson 1918-1918 10 15 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 .067 .067 .067 0 0 1986-01-10 Scottsdale Alex Kellner 1948-1959 323 643 49 138 16 1 4 57 30 106 .215 .251 .261 0 0 1996-05-03 Tucson Walt Kellner 1952-1953 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 0 0 2006-06-19 Tucson Bob Kennedy 1939-1957 1483 4624 514 1176 196 41 63 514 364 443 .254 .309 .355 45 50 2005-04-07 Mesa Thornton Kipper 1953-1955 55 16 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 9 .125 .125 .125 0 0 2006-03-29 Scottsdale Harvey Kuenn 1952-1966 1833 6913 951 2092 356 56 87 671 594 404 .303 .357 .408 68 56 1988-02-28 Peoria Grover Land 1908-1915 293 910 62 221 21 6 0 80 27 44 .243 .271 .279 14 0 1958-07-22 Phoenix Swede Larsen 1936-1936 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 0 2005-10-08 Tucson Thornton Lee 1933-1948 375 835 63 167 24 4 4 66 27 208 .200 .226 .253 0 0 1997-06-09 Tucson Hank Leiber 1933-1942 813 2805 410 808 137 24 101 518 274 319 .288 .356 .462 5 0 1993-11-08 Tucson Clarence Maddern 1946-1951 104 238 17 59 12 1 5 29 12 26 .248 .301 .370 0 0 1986-08-09 Tucson Bill Malarkey 1908-1908 15 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 0 1956-12-12 Phoenix Bobby Mattick 1938-1942 206 690 54 161 31 1 0 64 33 60 .233 .269 .281 7 0 2004-12-16 Scottsdale Mickey McDermott 1948-1961 443 619 71 156 29 2 9 74 52 112 .252 .312 .349 1 2 2003-08-07 Phoenix Tom McGuire 1914-1919 44 71 5 19 4 1 1 11 7 18 .268 .333 .394 0 0 1959-12-07 Phoenix Mike Mitchell 1907-1914 1124 4095 514 1138 130 104 27 514 368 216 .278 .340 .380 202 7 1961-07-16 Phoenix Art Nehf 1915-1929 464 915 90 192 29 5 8 76 86 122 .210 .281 .279 7 3 1960-12-18 Phoenix Tom O'Brien 1897-1900 427 1569 248 436 59 24 10 229 120 0 .278 .341 .365 55 0 1901-02-03 Phoenix Billy Parker 1971-1973 94 252 29 56 4 2 3 21 19 60 .222 .276 .290 1 4 2003-02-09 Sun City West Jiggs Parrott 1892-1895 318 1322 175 309 35 23 6 151 38 92 .234 .258 .309 62 0 1898-04-14 Phoenix Kirby Puckett 1984-1995 1783 7244 1071 2304 414 57 207 1085 450 965 .318 .360 .477 134 76 2006-03-06 Phoenix Oscar Purner 1895-1895 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 0 1915-12-04 Douglas +-------------------+---------+----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----------+--------------+ Player From To G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG SB CS Date Place of Death +-------------------+---------+----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----------+--------------+ Alex Remneas 1912-1915 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .500 .000 0 0 1975-08-27 Phoenix Xavier Rescigno 1943-1945 129 72 6 9 1 1 0 1 10 26 .125 .232 .167 0 0 2005-12-24 Sun City Kenny Robinson 1995-1997 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1999-02-28 Tucson Jack Roche 1914-1917 59 49 3 14 2 2 0 9 4 9 .286 .364 .408 2 0 1983-03-30 Peoria Dutch Ruether 1917-1927 488 969 83 250 30 12 7 111 77 129 .258 .314 .335 3 1 1970-05-16 Phoenix Rosy Ryan 1919-1933 249 268 18 51 8 0 1 12 20 64 .190 .249 .231 0 2 1980-12-10 Scottsdale Bob Scheffing 1941-1951 517 1357 105 357 53 9 20 187 103 127 .263 .316 .360 6 0 1985-10-26 Phoenix Walt Schulz 1920-1920 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 0 0 1928-02-27 Prescott Wally Smith 1911-1914 201 510 56 117 15 11 2 53 53 72 .229 .312 .314 12 4 1930-06-10 Florence Dernell Stenson 2003-2003 37 81 14 20 5 0 3 13 11 24 .247 .333 .420 0 0 2003-11-05 Chandler Gus Suhr 1930-1940 1435 5176 714 1446 288 114 84 818 718 433 .279 .368 .428 53 0 2004-01-15 Scottsdale Lefty Sullivan 1939-1939 7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 0 0 1988-11-01 Scottsdale Blaine Thomas 1911-1911 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 0 0 1915-08-21 Payson Junior Thompson 1939-1947 185 200 13 45 8 1 0 18 6 52 .225 .248 .275 0 0 2006-08-24 Scottsdale Tony Tonneman 1911-1911 2 5 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 .200 .333 .400 0 0 1951-08-04 Prescott Ollie Voigt 1924-1924 8 4 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 .250 .400 .750 0 0 1970-04-07 Scottsdale Kermit Wahl 1944-1951 231 642 58 145 23 6 3 50 68 72 .226 .302 .294 3 1 1987-09-16 Tucson Rube Walberg 1923-1937 547 905 78 162 26 5 4 84 48 179 .179 .220 .232 2 1 1978-10-27 Tempe Hal Warnock 1935-1935 6 7 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 3 .286 .286 .571 0 0 1997-02-08 Tucson Ed Watkins 1902-1902 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .250 .000 0 0 1933-03-29 Kelvin Buzz Wetzel 1927-1927 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 0 0 1941-03-07 Globe Dick Whitman 1946-1951 285 638 93 165 37 3 2 67 51 46 .259 .316 .335 10 0 2003-02-12 Peoria Fred Wigington 1923-1923 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 0 1980-05-08 Mesa Ed Wilkinson 1911-1911 10 13 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 .231 .231 .231 0 0 1918-04-09 Tucson Marsh Williams 1916-1916 10 19 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 6 .105 .150 .105 0 0 1935-02-22 Tucson Rinaldo Williams 1914-1914 4 15 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 .267 .267 .400 0 0 1966-04-24 Cottonwood +-------------------+---------+----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+---+----------+--------------+
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Player From To W L WL% ERA G GS CG SHO SV IP H ER HR BB SO Date Place of Death +-------------------+---------+---+---+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+---+----+----+----------+--------------+ Les Barnhart 1928-1930 1 1 .500 6.75 3 2 0 0 0 17.3 25 13 1 8 2 1971-10-07 Scottsdale Alex Beam 1889-1889 1 1 .500 6.50 2 2 2 0 0 18.0 11 13 0 15 1 1938-04-17 Nogales Rod Beck 1991-2004 38 45 .458 3.30 704 0 0 0 286 768.0 703 282 97 191 644 2007-06-23 Phoenix Clarence Beers 1948-1948 0 0 13.50 1 0 0 0 0 0.7 3 1 0 1 0 2002-12-06 Tucson Joe Black 1952-1957 30 12 .714 3.91 172 16 2 0 25 414.0 391 180 53 129 222 2002-05-17 Scottsdale Emmett Bowles 1922-1922 0 0 27.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 2 3 0 1 0 1959-09-03 Flagstaff Art Daney 1928-1928 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 1988-03-11 Phoenix George Darrow 1934-1934 2 6 .250 5.51 17 8 2 0 1 49.0 57 30 4 28 14 1983-03-24 Sun City Ted Davidson 1965-1968 11 7 .611 3.69 114 1 0 0 5 195.3 189 80 21 54 124 2006-09-01 Bullhead City Mal Eason 1900-1906 36 72 .333 3.39 125 113 90 10 1 944.3 1015 356 20 289 273 1970-04-16 Douglas Ralph Erickson 1929-1930 1 0 1.000 8.40 8 0 0 0 0 15.0 23 14 1 12 2 2002-06-27 Chandler Rags Faircloth 1919-1919 0 0 9.00 2 0 0 0 0 2.0 5 2 0 0 0 1953-10-05 Tucson Warren Fitzgerald 1891-1892 15 20 .429 3.66 37 36 33 3 0 310.0 325 126 8 106 114 1930-11-07 Phoenix Danny Frisella 1967-1976 34 40 .459 3.32 351 17 0 0 57 609.3 529 225 53 286 471 1977-01-01 Phoenix Hal Griggs 1956-1959 6 26 .188 5.50 105 45 6 1 3 347.0 372 212 43 209 172 2005-05-10 Tucson Red Hardy 1951-1951 0 0 6.75 2 0 0 0 0 1.3 4 1 0 1 0 2003-08-15 Phoenix Herb Herring 1912-1912 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 1964-04-22 Tucson Otto Hess 1902-1915 70 90 .438 2.98 198 165 129 18 5 1418.0 1355 469 25 448 580 1926-02-25 Tucson Carl Hubbell 1928-1943 253 154 .622 2.98 535 431 260 36 33 3590.3 3461 1188 227 725 1677 1988-11-21 Scottsdale Roy Johnson 1918-1918 1 5 .167 3.42 10 8 3 0 0 50.0 47 19 0 34 12 1986-01-10 Scottsdale Alex Kellner 1948-1959 101 112 .474 4.41 321 250 99 9 5 1849.3 1925 906 184 747 816 1996-05-03 Tucson Walt Kellner 1952-1953 0 0 6.43 3 0 0 0 1 7.0 5 5 0 7 6 2006-06-19 Tucson Thornton Kipper 1953-1955 3 4 .429 5.27 55 3 0 0 1 99.0 128 58 12 46 35 2006-03-29 Scottsdale Thornton Lee 1933-1948 117 124 .485 3.56 374 272 155 14 10 2331.3 2327 921 121 838 937 1997-06-09 Tucson Hank Leiber 1933-1942 0 1 .000 6.00 1 1 1 0 0 9.0 9 6 0 5 5 1993-11-08 Tucson Bill Malarkey 1908-1908 0 2 .000 2.57 15 0 0 0 2 35.0 31 10 1 10 12 1956-12-12 Phoenix Mickey McDermott 1948-1961 69 69 .500 3.91 291 156 54 11 14 1316.7 1161 572 87 838 757 2003-08-07 Phoenix Tom McGuire 1914-1919 5 6 .455 3.82 25 12 7 0 0 134.3 148 57 7 60 37 1959-12-07 Phoenix Art Nehf 1915-1929 184 120 .605 3.20 451 319 182 28 13 2707.7 2715 964 107 640 844 1960-12-18 Phoenix Oscar Purner 1895-1895 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 2.0 4 2 1 3 0 1915-12-04 Douglas +-------------------+---------+---+---+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+---+----+----+----------+--------------+ Player From To W L WL% ERA G GS CG SHO SV IP H ER HR BB SO Date Place of Death +-------------------+---------+---+---+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+---+----+----+----------+--------------+ Alex Remneas 1912-1915 0 0 7.04 3 0 0 0 0 7.7 8 6 0 3 5 1975-08-27 Phoenix Xavier Rescigno 1943-1945 19 22 .463 4.13 129 21 7 1 16 335.3 366 154 21 113 115 2005-12-24 Sun City Kenny Robinson 1995-1997 2 2 .500 3.91 29 0 0 0 0 48.3 35 21 8 26 40 1999-02-28 Tucson Dutch Ruether 1917-1927 137 95 .591 3.50 309 272 155 18 8 2124.7 2244 826 54 739 708 1970-05-16 Phoenix Rosy Ryan 1919-1933 52 47 .525 4.14 248 73 29 1 19 881.0 941 405 33 278 315 1980-12-10 Scottsdale Walt Schulz 1920-1920 0 0 6.00 2 0 0 0 0 6.0 10 4 0 2 0 1928-02-27 Prescott Lefty Sullivan 1939-1939 0 1 .000 4.26 7 1 0 0 0 12.7 9 6 0 9 4 1988-11-01 Scottsdale Blaine Thomas 1911-1911 0 0 0.00 2 2 0 0 0 4.7 3 0 0 7 0 1915-08-21 Payson Junior Thompson 1939-1947 47 35 .573 3.26 185 68 27 6 7 686.7 602 249 35 328 315 2006-08-24 Scottsdale Ollie Voigt 1924-1924 1 0 1.000 5.51 8 1 0 0 0 16.3 21 10 1 13 4 1970-04-07 Scottsdale Rube Walberg 1923-1937 155 141 .524 4.16 544 307 140 15 32 2644.0 2795 1223 163 1031 1085 1978-10-27 Tempe Buzz Wetzel 1927-1927 0 0 7.71 2 1 0 0 0 4.7 8 4 0 5 0 1941-03-07 Globe Fred Wigington 1923-1923 0 0 3.24 4 0 0 0 0 8.3 11 3 0 5 2 1980-05-08 Mesa Marsh Williams 1916-1916 0 6 .000 7.89 10 4 3 0 0 51.3 71 45 4 31 17 1935-02-22 Tucson +-------------------+---------+---+---+-----+-----+----+---+---+---+---+------+----+----+---+----+----+----------+--------------+
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+-------------------+--+---------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+----------+--------------+ Manager YR From To G W L WP BstFin WstFin PostSsn Pennants WrldSer PlyrMgr Date Place of Death +-------------------+--+---------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+----------+--------------+ Charlie Grimm 19 1932-1960 2368 1287 1067 .547 1 8 4 4 0 PlyrMgr 1983-11-15 Scottsdale Roy Johnson 1 1944-1944 1 0 1 .000 4 4 0 0 0 1986-01-10 Scottsdale Bob Kennedy 4 1963-1968 545 264 278 .487 6 8 0 0 0 2005-04-07 Mesa Harvey Kuenn 3 1975-1983 279 160 118 .576 1 5 1 1 0 1988-02-28 Peoria Bobby Mattick 2 1980-1981 268 104 164 .388 7 7 0 0 0 2004-12-16 Scottsdale Bob Scheffing 6 1957-1963 849 418 427 .495 2 8 0 0 0 1985-10-26 Phoenix +-------------------+--+---------+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+----------+--------------+
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