Jerry Dorsey (dorseje02)
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Jeremiah Dorsey
- Bats Left, Throws Left
- Height 5' 11", Weight 175 lb.
- Debut September 23, 1911
- Final Game September 28, 1911
- Born 1885 in Oakland, CA USA
[edit] Biographical Information
Jerry Dorsey played two games for the Pittsburgh Pirates in late September of 1911. He began his professional career that year playing for the Gadsden Steel Makers in the Southeastern League where the local papers called him Jere Dorsey. He then played for the Memphis Turtles of the Southern Association for two weeks before making his way to Pittsburgh. In 1912, he played for a team outside of organized baseball in Henderson, TX, then was with the Bonham Blues of the Texas-Oklahoma League in 1913, and with the Denison Blue Sox of the same league and the McAlester Miners of the Western Association in 1914. He was back in Denison in 1915, also playing for the Tulsa Producers of the Western Association. In 1923, his name pops up on an list of ineligible players issued by the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues.
This is everything that is known for sure about Jerry Dorsey. The birth details that list him as being born in Oakland, CA in 1885 come from his player card kept in the Sporting News archive, but they are contradicted by information in other sources that identify him as being either from Alabama, Nashville, TN, or the southern states more generally. None of these leads have been corroborated by census or draft registration data, and no one knows for sure when or where he died.
[edit] Further Reading
- "When Did Jerry Dorsey Take The Last Waltz?", in Bill Carle, ed.: November/December 2007 Report, SABR Biographical Research Committee, Cleveland, OH, 2007, p. 3.
