John Leary

John Louis Leary
(Jack)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11½", Weight 180 lb.

• Debut April 14, 1914
• Final Game September 27, 1915
• Born May 2, 1891 in Waltham, MA USA
• Died August 18, 1961 in Waltham, MA USA

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Biographical Information

John Leary was a first baseman for the St. Louis Browns in 1914 and 1915. He was their regular first baseman in 1914 but lost his job to George Sisler the next year. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War I (BN). He coached football, baseball and was athletic director at Waltham High School in Waltham, MA from 1920 until retiring in 1960, winning three state football championships. He died at age 70 on August 18, 1961 in Waltham Hospital after suffering a stroke a month earlier and is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Waltham.

Sources

Principal sources for John Leary 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.