Pete Gray

Played For
St. Louis Browns (1945)

Minor League Experience
Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, reports:

"To this day the mainstream media tend to follow the Organized Baseball attitude that outlaw leagues (white or black) did not count, no matter how well established. Thus the otherwise excellent New York Times obituary "Pete Gray, Major Leaguer With One Arm, Dies at 87," by Richard Goldstein, in 2002, repeated the commonly made but erroneous claim that "Gray made his minor league debut in 1942 with Three Rivers of the Canadian-American League, batting .381." In fact, that was not even Gray's first season with Three Rivers, better known in Quebec as Trois Rivieres. Grey actually made his professional baseball debut with Trois Rivieres of the Provincial League in 1938, the same year that [Joe] Boley debuted for Sorel, collecting 17 hits, 7 runs scored, 8 runs batted in, one home run, no doubles, and no triples, in 60 at-bats, for a .283 batting average. Grey one-handed his single home run out of the park. His whereabouts in 1939-1941, before Trois Rivieres brought him back in 1942, are not recorded.

Born
Peter J. Gray was born on March 6, 1915, in Nanticoke, PA.

Died
June 30, 2002, Nanticoke, PA

Batted:  Left
Threw:  Left

Primary Position:  OF

Primary Team:  SLA

Major League Debut
April 17, 1945

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Pete Gray

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