Marshall Locke

Marshall Pinkney Wilder Locke

• Bats Unknown, Throws Unknown

• Debut July 5, 1884
• Final Game July 20, 1884
• Born March 12, 1857 in Ashland, OH USA
• Died March 6, 1940 in Ashland, OH USA

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Biographical Information

Marshall Locke played seven games for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. He split his time between center and right field. At the time he was 27 years old. Although he did no pitching at the major league level, in the minors he did some pitching for Birmingham.

Locke was born, and died, in Ashland, OH, 65 miles south of Cleveland. It was reported in late 1886 that he had played ball in Kansas that year.

He is the first of several players with the last name Locke. The next one to break into the majors was Chuck Locke in 1955.

A poem of his, with eight stanzas, was published in Sporting Life, February 12, 1890.

"Marshall Locke, of Indianapolis, has written a base ball comedy which holds the League up to ridicule in its methods of classifying and selling players. It is intended by the author to place the players' side of the question on the stage and win for them public sympathy." - Sporting Life, Sept. 25, 1889