Marv Blaylock

Marvin Edward Blaylock

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 6' 1", Weight 175 lb.
• School Fort Smith Junior College
• Debut September 26, 1950
• Final Game September 28, 1957
• Born September 30, 1929 in Fort Smith, AR USA
• Died October 23, 1993 in Conway, AR USA

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Biographical Information

Marv Blaylock played four years in the majors, serving as the regular first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies for two of them. He was the first of three players named Blaylock to come to the majors in the 1950s. The other two, Bob and Gary Blaylock, were pitchers.

The New York Giants signed him as an amateur free agent in 1947 and shipped him to the Class D Lawton Giants where the young first baseman hit .247. Marv was with the same team the following year, hitting .285 in 129 games with 477 at-bats. Marv was with the 1949 Trenton Giants and the Jersey City Giants the next two seasons, reaching the Polo Grounds in 1950 for one pinch-hitting appearance in September. It was back to the minors the next few years and, on July 5, 1953, the Giants traded him to the International League's Syracuse Chiefs in return for Claude Corbitt. The following season, the Chiefs became an affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies and Blaylock joined that organization.

After hitting .303 with 22 home runs at Syracuse in 1954, Marv was up with the Phils in 1955 and became their regular first baseman the next two seasons, ending his major league career as a backup in 1957 with a career .235 average and 15 home runs. Marv finished 1957 with the minor league Miami Marlins, hitting .252 in 41 games, then finished his baseball career hitting .300 for the AA Nashville Volunteers in 1959. Marv spent ten years of active play in the minors, seven of those years in AAA. Blaylock appeared in 1,200 minor league games with 4,238 at-bats and 1,151 hits, 125 of those being home runs, and a .266 batting average.

Marv, who was in sales for a music company in Little Rock, AR, died October 23, 1993, at the age of 64 in Conway, AR.

Sources

Baseball Players of the 1950s

Related Sites

• BR Minors page
• The Blaylocks of Baseball