Lyman Linde

Lyman Gilbert Linde

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 185 lb.
• School University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Debut September 11, 1947
• Final Game May 9, 1948
• Born September 30, 1920 in Rolling Prairie, WI USA
• Died October 24, 1995 in Beaver Dam, WI USA

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Biographical Information

Lyman Linde was a pitcher for 12 years (1939-1953), three in college (1939-1941), two in the Major Leagues (1947-1948) and nine in the minors (1942 and 1946-1953), losing three years to the military. Linde was born on September 30, 1920, in Rolling Prairie, WI. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison off and from 1939 to 1947. He served as a Radar Signal Corps Specialist for the U.S. Army during World War II (BN).

He was scouted and signed for the Cleveland Indians by Bill Veeck. Linde was 26 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 11, [[1947] Indians|1947], with the Indians. He also played for the Cleveland Indians in 1948 with his last game on May 9. In his nine years in the minors, he played for Green Bay in the Wisconsin State League (1942), Greenville in the South Atlantic League (1946), Oklahoma City in the Texas League (1947), Baltimore in the International League (1948), San Diego in the Pacific Coast League (1949) and the Portland Beavers in the PCL (1950-1953). Overall he was 97-103 in the minors.

Over the years he worked for the Kirsh Foundry in Beaver Dam, WI, the City of Beaver Dam Street Department and the Beaver Dam School District. He died at age 75 in Hillside Hospital at Beaver Dam and is buried in Leipsig Cemetery in the same town.

Sources

Principal sources for Lyman Linde 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.