Jimmie Long

James Albert Long

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 160 lb.

• Debut September 12, 1922
• Final Game September 30, 1922
• Born June 29, 1898 in Fort Dodge, IA USA
• Died September 14, 1970 in Fort Dodge, IA USA

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Biographical Information

Jimmie Long was a catcher 16 years (1916-1931), one in the Majors (1922) and 16 in the minors (1916-1931). He broke into Organized Baseball in 1916 at age 17. He served in the United States Armed Forces during World War I (BN). He was with the Oklahoma City Indians in the Western League in 1922 when, at 24 years old, he broke into the big leagues on September 12, 1922, with the Chicago White Sox for a three-game cup of coffee through September 30.

Returning to the minors, he played for the Syracuse Stars in the International League (1922-1923); the Mexia Gushers in the Texas Association (1926); the San Antonio Bears in the Texas League (1926-1927); the Wichita Larks and Wichita Aviators in the Western League (1928-1929); the Grand Island Islanders in the Nebraska State League (1930); and Oklahoma City again (1931); ending his baseball career at age 33.

He followed baseball locally for several years, then worked for the Tobin Packing Plant and, later, for the city of Fort Dodge, IA as a parking attendant. He died at age 71 in the Park Manor Nursing Home in Fort Dodge on September 14, 1970 following an illness of two years and is buried at Corpus Christi Cemetery in Fort Dodge.

Sources

Principal sources for Jimmie Long 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..

Related Sites

• For a full Bibliography from SABR's The Baseball Index (TBI)