Phil Bedgood
From BR Bullpen
Phillip Burlette Bedgood
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 3", Weight 218 lb.
- Debut September 20, 1922
- Final Game September 15, 1923
- Born March 8, 1898 in Harrison, GA USA
- Died November 8, 1927 in Fort Pierce, FL USA
[edit] Biographical Information
Phillip Bedgood was being treated for a srtained muscle in his side when his appendix ruptured and he died at age 29.
Gerald F Bedgood, nephew.
He had been selling Studebakers in Fort Pierce before becoming an assistant manager at the Fort Pierce Hudson-Essex dealership. He is buried in the Baptist Church cemetery in Harrison, GA.
[edit] Sources
Principal sources for Phil Bedgood include newspaper obituaries (OB), government records (VA,CM,CW), Sporting Life (SL), Baseball Digest, The Sporting News (TSN), The Sports Encyclopedia:Baseball 2006 by David Neft & Richard Cohen (N&C), old Who's Who in Baseballs (none) (WW), old Baseball Registers (none) (BR), TSN's Daguerreotypes (none) (DAG), The Historical Register, The Baseball Necrology by Bill Lee (BN), Pat Doyle's Professional Ballplayer DataBase(PD), The Baseball Library (BL); various Encyclopediae including The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball by Turkin & Thompson (T&T), MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia (Mac), Total Baseball (TB), The Bill James Historical Abstract (BJ) and The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (LJ); Retrosheet (RS), The Baseball Chronology (BC), Baseball Page (BP), The Baseball Almanac (BA), Baseball Cube (B3), The National Association of Baseball Players (1857-1870) by Marshall D. Wright and obituaries at deadballera.com (DBE) as well as research by Reed Howard (RH), Pat Doyle (PD) and Frank Hamilton (FH).
