Pete Laydon
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Peter John Laydon Correct spelling is Layden
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 11", Weight 185 lb.
- School University of Texas at Austin
- Debut April 28, 1948
- Final Game July 15, 1948
- Born December 30, 1919 in Dallas, TX USA
- Died July 18, 1982 in Edna, TX USA
[edit] Biographical Information
Pete Laydon was an outfielder six years from 1939-1948, three in college (1939-1941), one in the Major Leagues (1948) and three in the minors (1946-48), losing four years to the Military. He attended the University of Texas at Austin from 1939 to 1941. He served in the United States Army Air Corps for four years during World War II (1942-1945) (GB/BN). He played with the St. Louis Browns in 1948.
A collegiate football player in Texas, Layden played in 41 games for the 1948 Browns in his only season in the majors. Later that year, he returned to the gridiron, playing in the All-American Football Conference as a running back. A halfback, 1948-1949 with New York (AAFC) and with the 1950 New York football Yankees. He was a rancher in Jackson County, TX and served ten years as a county commissioner. He died in his sleep at his home at age 62, apparently from a heart attack, and is buried at the Layden Family Cemetery in Edna, TX.
[edit] Sources
Principal sources for Pete Laydon 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.
