Clyde Nance

Clyde Lonsol Nance

• Throws Right

• Born April 6, 1907 in Fowler, CA USA
• Died ~1929

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Biographical Information

Clyde Nance pitched four years in the minors, going 19-19, before he died in an auto accident while in the top level of the minor leagues of the time, AA.

Nance debuted in 1926 with the Tyler Trojans, going 7-9. In 1927, Clyde was 2-3 with a 3.65 ERA for the Seattle Indians and hit .286 with 4 RBI. He split 1928 between the Des Moines Demons (0-2), Seattle and the San Francisco Missions. With San Francisco, he won his first nine games. Overall, he went 9-1 in the Pacific Coast League that year, with a 3.36 ERA. He batted .272 with one HR and 10 RBI. In 1929, Clyde was called one of the top two prospects on San Francisco in an interview with Red Killefer; Gordon Slade was the other. The Sporting News described Nance as a "strapping righthanded pitcher who is in his early twenties." Nance went 1-3 and hit .210 that year for the Joplin Miners and was 0-1 with San Francisco. He then died in a car accident that year, one of three PCL players to lose their life that way in a year.

Sources: 1929 and 1930 Spalding Guides, Pat Doyle's Professional Baseball Player Database, The Sporting News archives at Paper of Record.com