Larry Woodall
Larry Woodall | |
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Catcher | |
Born: Staunton, Virginia | July 26, 1894|
Died: May 16, 1963 Cambridge, Massachusetts | (aged 68)|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
May 20, 1920, for the Detroit Tigers | |
Last MLB appearance | |
May 9, 1929, for the Detroit Tigers | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .268 |
Home runs | 1 |
Runs batted in | 161 |
Teams | |
Charles Lawrence "Larry" Woodall (July 26, 1894 – May 16, 1963) was a professional baseball player. He played ten seasons in Major League Baseball, all in the American League with the Detroit Tigers (1920–1929), primarily as a catcher.
Life[]
Born in Staunton, Virginia, he attended Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina.
Career[]
During most of Woodall's playing career, he played behind two starting catchers of the Tigers, Johnny Bassler and Oscar Stanage. For one season in 1927, however, he played a career-high 86 games at catcher during manager George Moriarty's first season. Woodall posted a .997 fielding percentage (committing one error), the best percentage among all starting catchers that season. He hit over .300 in three seasons and had a career batting average of .268 in 548 games. Woodall batted and threw right-handed.
After his major league career was over, Woodall spent ten seasons in the Pacific Coast League. In 1930–31, he played for the Portland Beavers, including a stint as player-manager in 1930. He moved on to the Sacramento Senators in 1932–33, then put in six seasons with the San Francisco Seals from 1934 to 1939.
Woodall's post-playing career included more than two decades with the Boston Red Sox, as a coach (1942–1948, including service on Boston's 1946 pennant-winning team), director of public relations, and scout. In 1949, he scouted Willie Mays but reported that Mays "was not the Red Sox' type of player."[1] Woodall remained a Red Sox employee until his death at age 68 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ James, Bill (2001). The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. The Free Press. p. 205.
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