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4 unusual facts about Kerby Farrell


Kerby Farrell

Major Kerby Farrell (September 3, 1913 – December 17, 1975) was a longtime minor league baseball manager who spent but a single season — 1957 — as a manager in American Major League Baseball.

In 1947, he became a skipper in the farm system of the Cleveland Indians with the Spartanburg Peaches of the Class B Tri-State League and began a steady rise through the Cleveland organization.

Farrell in his playing days was a first baseman and veteran minor-leaguer who played 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 no home runs and 55 runs batted in.

At the close of the 1956 season, when the Indians finished as runners-up to the New York Yankees, Cleveland manager Al Lopez resigned to become the new skipper of the White Sox and Farrell was promoted to succeed him.



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