Earl Pickering

Earle Thomas Pickering

• Bats Unknown, Throws Unknown
• Height Unknown, Weight Unknown
• School University of Minnesota
• Born January 6, 1888 in Geneva, MN USA
• Died June 14, 1961 in Minneapolis, MN USA

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Biographical Information

Earle Thomas Pickering was a college coach and minor league manager whose documented baseball work included two seasons as baseball coach at University of Arkansas and a 1923 stint as manager of the New Rockford-Carrington Twins, which moved and became the Valley City Hi-Liners during the same season. Arkansas records credit his baseball teams with 14-5 and 19-7 marks in 1914 and 1915.

Pickering was a star athlete at University of Minnesota. He captained the 1911 football team and was a first-team All-Big Ten fullback in 1909. He also served as head football coach at University of Arkansas in 1913 and 1914 and at University of St. Thomas in 1915.

GOPHER CAPTAIN TO PITCH FOR TERRE HAUTE NINE.
Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 21.-- Earl Pickering, the University of Minnesota athlete, has signed to pitch for the Terre Haute Central league club, according to [announcement [sic] made here today. Pickering was a football star last fall, but was barred from the Minnesota-Wisconsin game by Wisconsin filing charges that he had played professional baseball in the summer.

Contemporary sources indicate that Pickering did play professional baseball. A 1912 University of Chicago publication said he had been disqualified before Minnesota's 1911 game with Wisconsin for playing for a semi-pro club in Milbank, SD under the assumed name of "Gray".

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported on January 22, 1912 that he had signed to pitch for the Terre Haute club of the Central League, although this turned out to be Ollie Pickering. so this may have been misreported by the paper.

He was born in Geneva, Minnesota, on January 6, 1888, and died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 14, 1961. By the early 1930s he was living in Ekalaka, where he practiced law.