American baseball player

Baseball player

Larry Woodall

Catcher
Born: (1894-07-26)July 26, 1894
Staunton, Virginia
Died: May 16, 1963(1963-05-16) (aged 68)
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut
May 20, 1920, for the Detroit Tigers
Last MLB appearance
May 9, 1929, for the Detroit Tigers
MLB statistics
Batting average| .268
Home runs| 1
Runs batted in| 161
Teams

* Detroit Tigers (1920–1929)

Charles Lawrence "Larry" Woodall (July 26, 1894 – May 16, 1963) was a professional baseball player. He played ten seasons in Major League Baseball, all in the American League with the Detroit Tigers (1920–1929), primarily as a catcher.

## Contents

* 1 Life
* 2 Career
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Life[edit]

Born in Staunton, Virginia, he attended Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina.

## Career[edit]

During most of Woodall's playing career, he played behind two starting catchers of the Tigers, Johnny Bassler and Oscar Stanage. For one season in 1927, however, he played a career-high 86 games at catcher during manager George Moriarty's first season. Woodall posted a .997 fielding percentage (committing one error), the best percentage among all starting catchers that season. He hit over .300 in three seasons and had a career batting average of .268 in 548 games. Woodall batted and threw right-handed.

After his major league career was over, Woodall spent ten seasons in the Pacific Coast League. In 1930–31, he played for the Portland Beavers, including a stint as player-manager in 1930. He moved on to the Sacramento Senators in 1932–33, then put in six seasons with the San Francisco Seals from 1934 to 1939.

Woodall's post-playing career included more than two decades with the Boston Red Sox, as a coach (1942–1948, including service on Boston's 1946 pennant-winning team), director of public relations, and scout. In 1949, he scouted Willie Mays but reported that Mays "was not the Red Sox' type of player."[1] Woodall remained a Red Sox employee until his death at age 68 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

## See also[edit]

* List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise

## References[edit]

1. ^ James, Bill (2001). The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. The Free Press. p. 205.

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Larry Woodall.

* Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
* Larry Woodall at Find a Grave

Sporting positions

Preceded by

Moe Berg

|  Boston Red Sox first-base coach
1942–1947  | Succeeded by

Earle Combs