Jan 28, 2011

Walter Beall


(Wikipedia) Walter Esau Beall (July 29, 1899 – January 28, 1959) was an American major league baseball player who played for the New York Yankees on several championship teams in the 1920s.
Born in Washington, D.C., Beall was a standout pitcher in the minor leagues before his contract was sold by Rochester of the International League to the New York Yankees in August 1924 for $50,000. Beall was a member of the 1927 New York Yankees, a team often considered the greatest ever,[3][4] though he only pitched one inning that year (May 30 against the Philadelphia Athletics). Continued

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