Tom Devyr

Thomas Devyr

• Height 5' 8½", Weight 140 lb.

Biographical Information

Tom Devyr played for the Brooklyn Eckfords (1862-1863), the New York Mutuals (1864-1865; 1867-1869) and the Brooklyn Eckfords again (1869-1870). In 1865, three New York Mutuals players (Devyr, Bill Wansley, and Ed Duffy) were paid $100 by gambler Kane McLoughlin to throw a game against the Eckfords. The Mutuals lost 23-11. All three were banned from baseball, but, due primarily to immense pressure from the powerful New York club, Devyr was quickly reinstated. Bill Wansley and Ed Duffy were both later reinstated in 1870.

Sources

Principal sources for Tom Devyr 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), The National Association of Baseball Players (1857-1870) by Marshall D. Wright and obituaries at deadballera.com (DBE) as well as research by Reed Howard (RH), Pat Doyle (PD) and Frank Hamilton (FH).

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