Carl Ridgley

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Carl Victor Ridgley
(Duke)

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Biographical Information[edit]

Carl Ridgley, who was known as Duke because of his fashion sense, was born in Milton, WV on December 8, 1889[1]. He played professionally for the Huntington Blue Sox in 1911 in the Mountain States League and again in 1913 when Huntington was a member of the Ohio State League.[2][3]

In 1919, Ridgley coached the baseball team at Marshall College[4]. He later became a longtime sportswriter for the Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, beginning on July 4, 1919, and he is credited with giving Marshall the nickname "Thundering Herd"[5][6][7]. He died in Lexington, KY on February 14, 1962[2].

Sources[edit]

  1. ↑ U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, card for Carl Victor Ridgley.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hinton Daily News (Hinton, WV), February 16, 1962, p. 8.
  3. ↑ https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=ridgle002---
  4. ↑ Marshall College, Mirabilia, 1919 (Huntington, WV: J.R. Haworth Co., 1919), p. 12, Marshall Yearbooks, https://mds.marshall.edu/yearbooks/12, accessed April 4, 2026.
  5. ↑ West Virginia Sports Writers Association, https://wvswa.org/wvswa-p959-616.htm, accessed April 4, 2026.
  6. ↑ Marshall University, History & Records, section 7, https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/herdzone.com/documents/2018/6/13/0910_mg_section7.pdf, accessed April 4, 2026.
  7. ↑ Cabell County Doors to the Past, "Remembering 'Duke' Ridgley," https://cabellcountydoorstothepast.com/Old%20Huntington/Remembering%20%27Duke%27%20Ridgley.htm, accessed April 4, 2026.
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