Buddy Lively
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Everett Adrian Lively (Red)
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 0", Weight 200 lb.
- Debut April 17, 1947
- Final Game September 25, 1949
- Born February 14, 1925 in Birmingham, AL USA
[edit] Biographical Information
Buddy Lively was a pitcher ten years (1942-1955), three in the Majors (1947-1949) and eight in the minors (1942-1943;1948-1955), losing three years to the Military and one year to an abortive retirement. Lively was born on Saturday, 14 February 1925, in Birmingham, AL, the son of Jack Lively, a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers in 1911.
Signed by the Cincinnati Reds, he pitched for Montgomery in the Southeastern League (1942), Salem-Roanoke in the Virginia League (1942); and the Birmingham Barons in the Southern Association (1943). He then served three years in the U. S. Army (1944-1946) (GB). Discharged from the Army, he was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on 17 April 1947, with the Reds.
He played for the Reds three years (1947-1949), with 1948 being spent partly with Tulsa of the Texas League. He pitched his last game of MLB with Cincinnati on 25 September 1949 at age 24. After a year of "retirement," he pitched for Sherman-Denison in the Big State League (1951); Shreveport in the Texas League (1952-1953); Jacksonville in the South Atlantic League (SAL) (1953-1954); Augusta in the SAL (1954); and Columbus in the International League (1955), where he ended his career at age 30.
In February of 2008, Buddy Lively celebrated his 83rd birthday.
[edit] Sources
Principal sources for Buddy Lively include newspaper obituaries (OB), government Veteran records (VA,CM,CW), Stars & Stripes (S&S), Sporting Life (SL), The Sporting News (TSN), The Sports Encyclopedia:Baseball 2006 by David Neft & Richard Cohen (N&C), old Who's Who in Baseballs {{{WW}}} (WW), old Baseball Registers {{{BR}}} (BR) , old Daguerreotypes by TSN {{{DAG}}} (DAG), Stars&Stripes (S&S), The Baseball Necrology by Bill Lee (BN), Pat Doyle's Professional Ballplayer DataBase (PD), The Baseball Library (BL), Baseball in World War II Europe by Gary Bedingfield (GB) {{{MORE}}} and independent research by Walter Kephart (WK) and Frank Russo (FR) and others.
