Lloyd Russell

Lloyd Opal Russell

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 166 lb.
• School Baylor University, University of Texas
• High School Oak Cliff High School
• Debut April 26, 1938
• Final Game May 7, 1938
• Born April 10, 1913 in Atoka, OK USA
• Died May 24, 1968 in Clifton, TX USA

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Biographical Information

Lloyd Russell played baseball five years (1935-1939), three in college (1935-1937); and three in the minors (1937-1939); with a cup of coffee in 1938. He was born on April 10, 1913, in Atoka, OK. He attended Baylor University (1935-1937), where he played baseball and football.

He broke into Organized Baseball at age 24 with Knoxville in the Southern Association in 1937. He played with Knoxville (1937); and Albany in the Eastern League (1938); when at 23 years of age, he broke into the big leagues on April 26, 1938 with the Cleveland Indians as a pinch runner for two games and played his final MLB game on May 7th of that same year. He returned to the minors with Albany (1938); the Syracuse Stars in the International League (1938); and Wilkes-Barre in the Eastern League (1939); ending his baseball career at age 26. Overall in the minors, he had 2 home runs and 98 RBI.

Russell served in both the Atlantic and Pacific for the U.S. Navy during World War II (BN). He was athletic director and head football coach at St. Mary's College in San Antonio, TX and at University of North Texas in Denton, TX before becoming chairman of the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Department at Baylor University in Waco, TX. Russell was the head baseball coach at Baylor in 1940-1941 and 1958-1961. He was also a Waco city councilman. He died at age 55 at Goodall-Witcher Hospital in Clifton, TX from a heart attack on May 24, 1968 and is buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Waco.

Sources

Principal sources for Lloyd Russell 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 (none) (WW), old Baseball Registers (none) (BR) , old Daguerreotypes by TSN (none) (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) The Southern Association in Baseball, 1885-1961 by Marshall D. Wright and The International League: Year-by-year Statistics, 1884-1953 by Marshall D. Wright and independent research by Walter Kephart (WK) and Frank Russo (FR) and others.

Related Sites

• Lloyd Russell at the SABR Bio Project
• Lloyd Russell at the Baseball Almanac
• Bio at Baseball Page
• and a full Bibliography from SABR's The Baseball Index (TBI)