Buddy Lively

Everett Adrian Lively
(Red)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 200 lb.

• Debut April 17, 1947
• Final Game September 25, 1949
• Born February 14, 1925 in Birmingham, AL USA
• Died July 12, 2015 in Huntsville, AL USA

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Biographical Information

Buddy Lively was a pitcher ten years (1942-1955), three in the majors (1947-1949) and eight in the minors (1942-1943 and 1948-1955), losing three years to military service and one year to injury. Lively was born on February 14, 1925, in Birmingham, AL, the son of Jack Lively, a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers in 1911.

Signed by the Cincinnati Reds, he pitched for the Salem-Roanoke Friends in the Virginia League (1942), the Montgomery Rebels in the Southeastern League (1942) and the Birmingham Barons in the Southern Association (1943). He then served three years in the U. S. Army (1944-1946) (GB). He was in an anti-aircraft battalion part of General George S. Patton's Third Army, fighting in France and Belgium. Discharged from the Army, he was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 17, 1947, with the Reds.

He played for the Reds three years (1947-1949), with 1948 being spent partly with the Tulsa Oilers of the Texas League. He pitched his last game of major league baseball with Cincinnati on September 25, 1949 at age 24. After missing a year recovering from shoulder surgery, he pitched for the Sherman-Denison Twins in the Big State League (1951); the Shreveport Sports in the Texas League (1952-1953); the Jacksonville Braves in the South Atlantic League (SAL) (1953-1954); the Augusta Rams in the SAL (1954); and the Columbus Jets in the International League (1955), where he ended his career at age 30.

After his playing career, he worked for NASA at their Huntsville, AL facilities, retiring in 1984. He passed away in 2015 at the age of 90.

Sources

Principal sources for Buddy Lively 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.

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