Harry Warner/pagetext

From SABR Encyclopedia

Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Transactions 1.3 Pre-professional career 1.4 Career highlights 2 Sources

[edit] Profile

[edit] Personal

• Resided in Reeders, Pennsylvania in 1951.

[edit] Transactions

• Purchased from the Stroudsburg club of the North Atlantic League at the end of the 1949 season by John Russell.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Warner captained his high school basketball and baseball teams in his senior year.^[1]
• Played baseball at Muhlenberg College.^[1]

[edit] Career highlights

• Manager of the year his debut year when his Erie team won the New York-Pennsylvania League championship. ^[1]

He was recruited and groomed by Phil Houser, general manager of the Charlotte Hornets. ^[1]

[edit] Sources

• 1951 Boston Braves Roster Book.