Joshua Earl Butler, born October 20th, 1925 in Subiaco, AR,1 was a professional baseball player from 1948-1951. Biography Butler attended Arkansas Tech.2 Butler died on May 31st, 2008 in Contra Costa, CA.3 He was buried in Hickory Grove Cemetery in Midway, AR.4 Stats Statistics at Baseball-Reference.com. 1 Butler's WWII Draft Card. 2 Arkansas Gazette, 5/22/1949 3 Social Security Death Index. 4 Butler's FindaGrave.com page.