Kerby Farrell
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| First Baseman / Manager | |||
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Born: September 3, 1913 McNairy County, Tennessee |
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Died: December 17, 1975 (aged 62) Nashville, Tennessee |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 24, 1943, for the Boston Braves | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 23, 1945, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .262 | ||
| On-base percentage | .303 | ||
| Runs batted in | 55 | ||
| Hits | 177 | ||
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Major Kerby Farrell (September 3, 1913 – December 17, 1975) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He was a longtime minor league manager who spent but a single season — 1957 — as a pilot in Major League Baseball. Farrell was a three-time winner of The Sporting News' Minor League Manager of the Year award (1954, 1956 and 1961) — the only man to have won the award more than twice (as of 2015).
Born in Leapwood, McNairy County, Tennessee, Farrell played college baseball at Freed-Hardeman College for two years. In his playing days, he was a first baseman and veteran minor-leaguer who appeared in two full MLB seasons during the World War II manpower shortage, with the 1943 Boston Braves and the 1945 Chicago White Sox, batting .262 with 177 hits, no home runs and 55 runs batted in in 188 games played. He also pitched in five games for the 1943 Braves, losing his only decision and compiling an earned run average of 4.30 in 23 innings of work. He batted and threw left-handed, stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 172 pounds (78 kg).
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