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A war-time Phillie turns 85 today.
I'm looking for photos of Rogers McKee, a pitcher for the Phillies in
1943-44. McKee turns 85 today. He was one of those players that the Phillies signed during WWII because he was under the draft age of 18, like Granny Hamner & Putsy Caballero. McKee was signed out of rural North Carolina and appered in his first MLB game less than a month before his 17th birthday. He appeared in his last MLB game the following year ten days after his 18th birthday. Then McKee was drafted that Fall and he never appeared in another major league game. He served over 18 months in the military before making it back to baseball for the second half of the 1946 season. He spent 12 seasons in the minors (1946-1957) but rarely pitched again. (just a few pitchiung appearences in 1946 & 1955). He swung a good bat, with some power, and made it as high as AAA as a
1B-OF but never got back to the majors. He was 1-0 lifetime in the big leagues.
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