Ray Lindsay

Ray Walter Lindsay

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 175 lb.

• Born December 5, 1907 in Sevier County, TN USA

Biographical Information

Ray Lindsay pitched 11 years in the minors (1937-1952), losing four years to the Military and one to inactivity. A late bloomer, he was born 5 December 1907 at [[Sevier County, TN] and broke into Organized Ball at the age of 29 in 1937 with Newton/Conover in the North Carolina State League. He played with the North Carolina State League (1937-1941;1946); the Carolina League (1946-1947); and the Western Carolina League (1948-1949;1951-1952). He played his last game with Hickory in the Western Carolina League in 1952 at the age of 44. He served in the Military four years during WW II (1942-1945) (MLS).

He had a remarkable ratio of strikeouts to walks (1,904 to 490) and was 154-98 lifetime.

Notable achievements

• Won 20 games three times (1939, 1940 & 1948)

• Led North Carolina State League in Strikeouts, 1938 (247)

• Led North Carolina State League in Innings Pitched (271), Strikeouts, (237) and ERA (1.89), 1939

• Led North Carolina State League in Innings Pitched (270), Wins (20) and Strikeouts (269), 1940

• Led Western Carolina League in Innings Pitched (263), Wins (21), Hits Allowed (262) and Strikeouts (255), 1948

Sources

Principal sources for Ray Lindsay include newspaper obituaries (OB), government records (VA,CM,CW), Sporting Life (SL), Baseball Digest, 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), TSN's Daguerreotypes (none) (DAG), The Historical Register, The Baseball Necrology by Bill Lee (BN), Pat Doyle's Professional Ballplayer DataBase(PD), The Baseball Library (BL); various Encyclopediae including The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball by Turkin & Thompson (T&T), MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia (Mac), Total Baseball (TB), The Bill James Historical Abstract (BJ) and The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (LJ); Retrosheet (RS), The Baseball Chronology (BC), Baseball Page (BP), The Baseball Almanac (BA), Baseball Cube (B3), SABR's Minor League Baseball Stars, Volume III (MLS) and obituaries at deadballera.com (DBE) as well as research by Reed Howard (RH), Pat Doyle (PD) and Frank Hamilton (FH)..