View Single Post
Old 06-13-2016, 12:35 PM   #1351
Cusick
Hall Of Famer
 
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 4,319
Bill Barkley

Pitcher Bill Barkley was a non-roster invitee to the Washington Senators' spring camp in 1955. The attached photo shows him with the baseball team of Gardner-Webb University. It comes from the website of Barkley Baseball in Hickory, NC. The website is at Barkley Baseball

My guess is that Bill is the father of former major leaguer Jeff Barkley, Sr. However, when I called the phone number of Barkley Baseball, the woman who answered said that Bill and Jeff Sr. are brothers. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because there is a 31 year age difference between the two of them. (Bill born in 1928; Jeff Sr. born in 1959). Within the Barkley Baseball website, it mentions Bill playing in the Fifties and Jeff Sr. in the Eighties. Jeff, Jr., was also a professional ballplayer. He pitched in the St. Louis Cardinals' minor league system in 2014.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/re...d=barkle002wil
Attached Images
Image 

Last edited by Cusick; 06-13-2016 at 01:00 PM. Reason: Add baseball-reference.com link.
Cusick is offline   Reply With Quote