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Originally Posted by prewinter
I found a note in the Portsmouth Herald of August 9, 1940 (pg. 9) that indicated George Batten was prominent in Athletics at Phillips Exeter in 1910 and 1911. (His name appears as a member of the junior class in a yearbook for Exeter from that time on an Ancestry.com profile.) The article (about his son's death) also notes he joined a major league baseball team as a pitcher. According to the boxscores I saw, he played second base in his only game in the majors?
In July 1913, George Batten, 21 years old, broke his leg while pitching for the Cape May baseball team (Philadelphia Inquirer, July 27, 1913, pg 7). That probably ended his 1913 season. And according to Ancestry.com, he got married in the spring of 1914, and his first son was born in October. Talent or not, that may have ended any chance he had at a professional career in baseball at any level.
That is the entirety of what I could learn about George Batten in a few quick searches. But Exeter may be the place to look for the photo.
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I pulled the same ancestry records but on closer inspection found that there were intermingled George Battens in the timeline of ancestry so I didn't trust them. I pulled some of the yearbooks at Exeter (I have an eyearbook account that I sometimes get lucky with) and the Batten there on a relook seemed to be too late for our man. Exeter is a high school today. There were pics too of other teams he was on in the yearbooks I saw ... but no way to match names to faces and I couldn't find his senior picture.