Jerry Lane

Jerald Hal Lane

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 205 lb.
• School Ithaca College
• Debut July 7, 1953
• Final Game May 8, 1955
• Born February 7, 1926 in Ashland, NY USA
• Died July 24, 1988 in Chattanooga, TN USA

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Biographical Information

Jerry Lane pitched 13 years, from 1947 to 1959, five in college, three in the major leagues and 12 in the minors. He served as a coxswain in the U.S. Navy during World War II (BN). 

He was signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent in 1948. He pitched in 31 games between 1953 and 1955 for the Washington Senators and Cincinnati Redlegs. He pitched professionally for teams in three countries (U.S., Canada and Cuba). Lane played for the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern Association, and was inducted into the Chattanooga old timers' Hall of Fame. He lived in Chattanooga, TN for 35 years. He died at age 62 and is buried at Chattanooga National Cemetery.

Sources

Principal sources for Jerry Lane 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.