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The following players made
their major league debuts after playing in the Kitty League.
The list is a work in progress and I'm sure more additions
will be made over time.
As of September 14, 2006, there
were 91 players who
graduated from the Kitty League to the big leagues. (The
newest additions are in bold type.)
If you know of any players
missing from this list, please
send them here under the subject line of "major
leaguers." Thank you!
| Player |
Pos |
Kitty Team |
Years |
ML Teams |
Years |
|
| Adams, Herb |
OF |
Madisonville |
1947 |
Chicago AL |
1948-50 |
|
| Antonelli, John |
SS |
Lexington |
1935-36 |
St. Louis NL |
1945 |
|
|
Union City |
1937 |
|
|
|
| Baker, Floyd |
SS |
Mayfield |
1938 |
St. Louis AL |
1943-44 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago AL |
1945-51 |
|
|
|
|
Washington AL |
1952-53 |
|
|
|
|
Boston AL |
1953-54 |
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia NL |
1954-55 |
|
| Bartosch, Dave |
OF-1B |
Union City |
1937 |
St. Louis NL |
1945 |
|
|
Paducah |
1938 |
|
|
|
| Beazley, Johnny |
P |
Lexington |
1937 |
St. Louis NL |
1941-42 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis NL |
1946 |
|
|
|
|
Boston NL |
1947-49 |
|
| Bergamo, Augie |
OF |
Paducah |
1938 |
St. Louis NL |
1944-45 |
|
| Betts, Harold |
P |
Jackson |
1903 |
St. Louis NL |
1903 |
|
|
Clarksville |
1903 |
Cincinnati NL |
1913 |
|
| Binks, George |
OF |
Owensboro |
1937 |
Washington AL |
1944-46 |
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia AL |
1947-48 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis AL |
1948 |
|
| Biscan, Frank |
P |
Mayfield |
1938-39 |
St. Louis AL |
1942 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis AL |
1946 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis AL |
1948 |
|
| Brame, Ervin |
P |
Hopkinsville |
1923 |
Pittsburgh NL |
1928-32 |
|
|
Hopkinsville |
1935 |
|
|
|
| Brockett, Lewis |
P |
Cairo |
1903 |
New York AL |
1907 |
|
|
Harrisburg |
1913 |
|
1909 |
|
|
|
|
|
1911 |
|
| Buhl, Bob |
P |
Madisonville |
1947 |
Milwaukee NL |
1953-62 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago NL |
1962-66 |
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia NL |
1966-67 |
|
| Bush, Guy |
P |
Milan-Trenton |
1923 |
Chicago NL |
1923-24 |
|
|
|
|
Pittsburgh NL |
1935-36 |
|
|
|
|
Boston NL |
1936-37 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis NL |
1938 |
|
|
|
|
Cincinnati NL |
1945 |
|
| Cantwell, Ben |
P |
Paris |
1923 |
New York NL |
1927-28 |
|
|
|
|
Boston NL |
1928-36 |
|
|
|
|
New York NL |
1937 |
|
|
|
|
Brooklyn NL |
1937 |
|
| Carroll, Dixie |
OF |
Paducah |
1910-11 |
Boston NL |
1919 |
|
| Clemens, Chet |
OF |
Portageville |
1936 |
Boston NL |
1939 |
|
|
Owensboro |
1936 |
Boston NL |
1942 |
|
| Coleman, Ray |
OF |
Mayfield |
1941 |
St. Louis AL |
1947-48 |
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia AL |
1948 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis AL |
1950-51 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago AL |
1951-52 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis AL |
1952 |
|
| Collins, Orth |
C |
Clarksville |
1903 |
New York AL |
1904 |
|
|
|
|
Washington AL |
1909 |
|
| Crone, Ray |
P |
Owensboro |
1949 |
Milwaukee NL |
1954-57 |
|
|
|
|
New York NL |
1957 |
|
|
|
|
San Francisco NL |
1958 |
|
| Crum, Calvin |
P |
Henderson |
1913 |
Boston NL |
1917-18 |
|
| Curtis, Vernon |
P |
Hopkinsville |
1942 |
Washington AL |
1943-44 |
|
|
Fulton |
1951 |
Washington AL |
1946 |
|
| DeBerry, Hank |
C |
Paducah |
1914 |
Cleveland AL |
1916-17 |
|
|
|
|
Brooklyn NL |
1922-30 |
|
| Dente, Sam |
SS |
Owensboro |
1941 |
Boston AL |
1947 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis AL |
1948 |
|
|
|
|
Washington AL |
1949-51 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago AL |
1952-53 |
|
|
|
|
Cleveland AL |
1954-55 |
|
| Doyle, Larry |
2B |
Mattoon-
Charleston |
1906 |
New York NL |
1907-16 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago NL |
1916-17 |
|
|
|
|
New York NL |
1918-20 |
|
| Dudra, John |
SS |
Owensboro |
1938 |
Brooklyn NL |
1941 |
|
| Endicott, Bill |
OF |
Union City |
1938 |
St. Louis NL |
1946 |
|
| Engle, Clyde |
3B |
Clarksville |
1903 |
New York AL |
1909-10 |
|
|
|
|
Boston AL |
1910-14 |
|
|
|
|
Buffalo FL |
1914-15 |
|
|
|
|
Cleveland AL |
1916 |
|
| Galle, Stan |
3B |
Hopkinsville |
1939 |
Washington AL |
1942 |
|
| Gardella,
Danny |
OF |
Fulton |
1939 |
New
York (NL) |
1944-45 |
|
|
|
|
St.
Louis (NL) |
1950 |
|
| Glenn, Harry |
C |
|
|
St. Louis NL |
1915 |
|
| Grace, Joe |
OF |
Paducah |
1935 |
St. Louis AL |
1938-41 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis AL |
1946 |
|
|
|
|
Washington AL |
1946-47 |
|
| Green, Gene |
OF |
Paducah |
1952 |
St. Louis NL |
1957-59 |
|
|
|
|
Baltimore AL |
1960 |
|
|
|
|
Washington AL |
1961 |
|
|
|
|
Cleveland AL |
1962-63 |
|
|
|
|
Cincinnati NL |
1963 |
|
| Grossman, Harley |
P |
Fulton |
1949-50 |
Washington
(AL) |
1952 |
|
| Gust, Ernie (Red) |
1B |
Harrisburg |
1910 |
St. Louis
(AL) |
1911 |
|
|
Harr/Jackson |
1911 |
|
|
|
| Gustine, Frank |
3B-2B |
Paducah |
1937 |
Pittsburgh NL |
1939-48 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago NL |
1949 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis AL |
1950 |
|
| Hallett, Jack |
P |
Hopkinsville |
1937 |
Chicago AL |
1940-41 |
|
|
|
|
Pittsburgh NL |
1942-43 |
|
|
|
|
Pittsburgh NL |
1946 |
|
|
|
|
New York NL |
1948 |
|
| Halliday, Newt |
1B |
Owensboro |
1916 |
Pittsburgh NL |
1916 |
|
| Hicks, Joe |
OF |
Madisonville |
1953 |
Chicago AL |
1964-66 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis NL |
1969 |
|
|
|
|
California AL |
1969-70 |
|
| Higbee, Mahlon |
OF |
Hopkinsville |
1922 |
New York NL |
1922 |
|
| Holley, Ed |
P |
Madisonville |
1922 |
Chicago NL |
1928 |
|
| Huhn, Emil |
C |
Hopkinsville |
1911 |
Newark FL |
1915 |
|
|
|
|
Cincinnati
NL |
1916-17 |
|
| Irelan, Harold |
SS |
Hopkinsville |
1911 |
Philadelphia
NL |
1914 |
|
| Javery, Al |
P |
Lexington |
1938 |
Boston NL |
1940-46 |
|
| Jonnard, Clarence (Bubber) |
C |
Hopkinsville |
1916 |
Chicago AL |
1920 |
|
|
|
|
Pittsburgh
NL |
1922 |
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia
NL |
1926-27 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis
NL |
1929 |
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia
NL |
1935 |
|
| Jonnard, Claude |
P |
Hopkinsville |
1916 |
New York NL |
1921-24 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis
AL |
1926 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago NL |
1929 |
|
| Just, Joe |
C |
Hopkinsville |
1937 |
Cincinnati
NL |
1944-45 |
|
| Kerr, Dickie |
P |
Cairo |
1911 |
Chicago AL |
1919-21 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago AL |
1925 |
|
| Kinder, Ellis |
P |
Jackson |
1938-41 |
St. Louis
AL |
1946-47 |
|
|
|
|
Boston AL |
1948-55 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis
NL |
1956 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago AL |
1956-57 |
|
| Koslo, Dave |
P |
Hopkinsville |
1939 |
New York NL |
1941-42 |
|
|
Paducah |
1940 |
New York NL |
1946-53 |
|
|
|
|
Baltimore
AL |
1954 |
|
|
|
|
Milwaukee
NL |
1954-55 |
|
| Kraft, Clarence |
P-1B |
McLeansboro |
1910 |
Boston NL |
1914 |
|
| Kralick, Jack |
P |
Madisonville |
1955 |
Washington
AL |
1959-60 |
|
|
|
|
Minnesota
AL |
1961-63 |
|
|
|
|
Cleveland |
1963-67 |
|
| Kravitz, Danny |
OF |
Mayfield |
1950 |
Pittsburgh
NL |
1956-60 |
|
|
|
|
Kansas City
AL |
1960 |
|
| Kubek, Tony |
SS |
Owensboro |
1954 |
New York AL |
1957-65 |
|
| Kutyna, Marty |
P |
Paducah |
1953 |
Kansas City
AL |
1959-60 |
|
|
|
|
Washington
AL |
1961-62 |
|
| Lakeman, Al |
C |
Union City |
1938 |
Cincinnati
(NL) |
1942-47 |
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia
(NL) |
1947-48 |
|
|
|
|
Boston (NL) |
1949 |
|
|
|
|
Detroit
(AL) |
1954 |
|
| Land, Grover |
C |
Paducah |
1904-05 |
Cleveland
(AL) |
1908-13 |
|
|
|
|
Brooklyn
(FL) |
1914-15 |
|
| Marbet, Walter |
P |
Clarksville |
1911 |
St. Louis
(NL) |
1913 |
|
| Martin, Fred |
P |
Union City |
1936 |
St. Louis
(NL) |
1946 |
|
|
|
|
St. Louis
(NL) |
1949-50 |
|
| Mayer, Sam |
OF |
Fulton |
1911 |
Washington
(AL) |
1915 |
|
| McArthur, Dixie |
P |
Hopkinsville |
1913 |
Pittsburgh
(NL) |
1914 |
|
| McCall, Dutch |
P |
Paducah |
|
Chicago
(NL) |
1948 |
|
|
Bowling
Green |
|
|
|
|
| McElyea, Frank |
1B |
Owensboro |
1940 |
Boston (NL) |
1942 |
|
| McMahon, Don |
P |
Owensboro |
1950 |
Milwaukee
(NL) |
1957-62 |
|
|
|
|
Houston
(NL) |
1962-63 |
|
|
|
|
Cleveland
(AL) |
1964-66 |
|
|
|
|
Boston (AL) |
1966-67 |
|
|
|
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Chicago
(AL) |
1967-68 |
|
|
|
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Detroit
(AL) |
1968-69 |
|
|
|
|
San
Francisco (NL) |
1969-74 |
|
| Metkovich, George
(Catfish) |
1B |
Fulton |
1939 |
Boston (AL) |
1943-46 |
|
|
|
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Cleveland
(AL) |
1947 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago
(AL) |
1949 |
|
|
|
|
Pittsburgh
(NL) |
1951-53 |
|
|
|
|
Chicago
(NL) |
1953 |
|
|
|
|
Milwaukee
(NL) |
1954 |
|
| Metro, Charlie |
OF |
Mayfield |
1939 |
Detroit
(AL) |
1943-44 |
|
|
|
|
Philadelphia
(AL) |
1944-45 |
|
| Moore, Jimmy |
OF |
Paris |
1923 |
Philadelphia
(AL) |
1930-31 |
|
| Pisoni, Jim |
|
Mayfield |
1949 |
St. Louis
(AL) |
1953 |
|
|
|
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Kansas City
(AL) |
1956-57 |
|
|
|
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Milwaukee
(NL) |
1959 |
|
|
|
|
New York
(AL) |
1959-60 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Rice, Harry |
OF |
Mayfield |
1922 |
St. Louis
(AL) |
1923-27 |
|
|
|
|
Detroit
(AL) |
1928-30 |
|
|
|
|
New York
(AL) |
1930 |
|
|
|
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Washington
(AL) |
1931 |
|
|
|
|
Cincinnati
(NL) |
1933 |
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| Rhodes, James (Dusty) |
OF |
Hopkinsville |
1947 |
New York
(NL) |
1952-57 |
|
|
|
|
San
Francisco (NL) |
1959 |
|
| Ross, Chester (Buster) |
P |
Mayfield |
1923 |
Boston (AL) |
1924-26 |
|
| Roush, Edd |
2B |
Henderson |
1911 |
Chicago
(AL) |
1913 |
|
OF |
Evansville |
1912 |
Indianapolis
(FL) |
1914 |
|
|
|
|
Newark (FL) |
1915 |
|
|
|
|
New York
(NL) |
1916 |
|
|
|
|
Cincinnati
(NL) |
1916-26 |
|
|
|
|
New York
(NL) |
1927-29 |
|
|
|
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Cincinnati
(NL) |
1931 |
|
| Sanders, Ray |
1B |
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