Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia | Professional Baseball Players (Debuted 1950-1959)

Professional Baseball Players (Debuted 1950-1959)

The following table includes an incomplete list of Professional Baseball Players from Arkansas who debuted between 1950-1959, sorted chronologically by first year in professional baseball (including minors). To sort columns, click on the column headers.

From	To	Name	Birth Mo.	Birth Day	Birth Year	Birth City	Birth State	Notes
1950	1950	Charles Gray	2	1	1932	North Little Rock	AR
1950	1957	Harry Young	10	26	1929	Hardin	TX	Resided in Alleene, AR
1950	1951	Durward McGaha	10	16	1925	Stella	AR
1950	1950	Billy Wayne Hollis	3	22	1930	Bearden	AR
1950	1953	Earl Dollins	12	24	1923	Corning	AR
1950	1950	Babe Eubanks	3	14	1922	Mena	AR
1950	1950	Benny Bennett	9	25	1930	Newport	AR
1950	1954	Ewell Utley	9	28	1931	Paris	AR
1950	1950	Curtis McElhaney	8	21	1928	Thorney	AR
1950	1953	James Price	8	1	1927	Vandervoort	AR
1950	1954	Tom Vines	6	20	1929		AR
1951	1953	Charlie Richison	1	14	1929	Keota	OK	Lived in Fort Smith, AR
1951	1951	Joe Roe	8	7	1931	Viola	AR	Nephew of Preacher Roe
1951	1954	Jesse Bucy			1930	Rector	AR
1951	1953	James Jaynes	2	15	1928		AR
1951	1954	John Joyner	3	10	1929		AR
1951	1951	Ulysses Burks	7	5	1927		AR
1951	1956	Marvin Stendel					MO	Attended the University of Arkansas
1951	1951	John Prickett	3	30	1931	Bryant	AR
1951	1951	Billy Weir	1	20	1932	Caraway	AR
1951	1954	Arky Stanton	9	1	1932	Diggott	AR
1951	1951	Jerry Culwell	4	30	1932	Hector	AR
1951	1951	Tony Falcinelli	1	22	1911	Helena	AR
1951	1956	Jerry Dean	8	23	1929		AR
1951	1954	James Knox	2	3	1935	Little Rock	AR
1951	1954	Ross McCormack	3	18	1931	Melborne	AR
1951	1952	Jim Albright	9	10	1928	Newport	AR
1951	1958	Bobby Winkles	3	11	1930	Tuckerman	AR
1951	1951	Marshall Riddle	4	22	1918	Warren	AR
1952	1952	Winston Norton	7	6	1928	Hooker	AR
1952	1952	Howard Rapert	10	29	1932	Randolph County	AR
1952	1952	Scotty Robertson	2	1	1930	Fort Smith	AR
1952	1955	Charles Keller	7	4	1933	Jonesboro	AR
1952	1960	Joe Porter	12	30	1932	Lake City	AR
1952	1957	John Geesing	2	9	1933	Paris	AR
1952	1953	Russ Butler	7	29	1924	Paris	AR
1952	1954	John Trucks	9	7	1934	Rison	AR
1952	1952	Arnie Kanady	2	8	1932	Sims	AR
1952	1957	Vernon Summers	9	10	1933		AR
1953	1955	Don Speer	4	4	1935	Booneville	AR	Son of Floyd Speer
1953	1953	John Greenway	11	30	1925	Blocker	AR
1953	1954	Shapard Pryor	2	23	1932		AR	Attended Arkansas State University
1953	1956	Art Williams	2	24	1934	Camden	AR
1953	1954	Zeb Walker	10	19	1930	Dermott	AR
1953	1954	Don King	3	23	1934	Elkins	AR
1953	1956	Jerry Wright	8	31	1934	Fort Smith	AR
1953	1969	Ollie Brantley			1932	Lexon	AR
1953	1957	Billy Girdley	1	24	1934	Osceola	AR
1953	1953	Bernard Geels	9	27	1930	Scranton	AR
1953	1953	Billy Puckett	11	24	1930	Hot Springs	AR
1954	1954	Duane Hudson	4	15	1935	Cherry Valley	AR
1954	1954	Alphonso Preston	7	30	1931	Menifee	AR
1954	1960	Frankie Shell	7	6	1933	Sage	AR
1954	1957	Robert Geels	11	23	1933	Scranton	AR
1954	1954	Edsel Nix	3	6	1932	Texarkana	AR	Attended University of Arkansas
1955	1955	James Farrar	7	7	1931	El Dorado	AR
1955	1955	George Dicus	5	19	1937	Little Rock	AR
1956	1967	Walt Matthews	10	19	1934	Ashdown	AR
1956	1961	Charles Bogan	11	12	1934	Fayetteville	AR
1956	1968	Don Williams	12	24	1937	Paragould	AR
1959	1959	Gene Wofford	4	20	1935	Greenbrier	AR
1959	1959	Jim Hornibrook	10	2	1938	Little Rock	AR
1952	1955	Theolic Smith	5	19	1913	Wabbesika	AR
1950	1956	Napoleon Gulley	8	29	1924	Huttig	AR
1952	1952	Andrew Porter	3	7	1911	Little Rock	AR
1959	1959	William McDonald	7	21	1938	Paragould	AR	S/o Grayson McDonald Sr.
1958	1961	George Alexander	9	13	1938	Fayetteville	AR
1951	1954	Charles Slaber	11	13	1931	Cook County	IL	Lived in El Dorado, AR
1956	1958	Charles Edward Clark	2	20	1933	McCrory	AR
1953	1955	Louie Schaufele	1	14	1930		AR
1951	1955	Dick Thompson	9	9	1929	Shanghai	China	Lived in Little Rock, AR
1953	1953	Ernie Crone			~1930		AR
1950	1955	Edgar Rowe	4	3	1930	El Paso	TX	Lived in Little Rock, AR
1950	1950	Glenn Evans	2	8	1930	Little Rock	AR
1951	1956	Frank Lucas						Lived in Little Rock, AR
1951	1954	Clell Callaway	1	14	1933	Arkadelphia	AR	Brother of Charles and Joe
1954	1955	Ernest Tabor	8	15	1936		AR
1954	1955	Charles Callaway	6	1	1936	Hollywood	AR	Brother of Clell and Joe
1954	1954	Thomas Lauderdale	5	16	1936		AR
1958	1959	Robert Stolzer	9	9	1936		AR
1954	1954	Harold Ellingson			~1936		AR
1953	1955	John Venable						Lived in Little Rock, AR
1950	1950	Walter Coleman	8	31	1928		AR
1951	1951	Vince Robison	9	15	1930	Morrilton	AR
1957	1957	John Walter Rose Sr.	9	5	1935	Ripley	TN	Resided in AR
1951	1954	John Balay	9	16	1930	Joplin	MO	Resided in AR
1956	1956	Joe Kretschmar	5	2	1934	Jefferson City	MO	Resided in Prairie Grove, AR
1951	1951	William Talbot	7	24	1927	Centerville	MS	Resided in Magnolia, AR
1953	1953	Lyndell Foster	12	30	1931	Fort Smith	AR
1953	1957	Eugene McClinton	1	29	1933	Des Moines	IA	Resided in Little Rock, AR
1954	1957	Geral Hurley	3	6	1938	Pope	AR
1953	1953	Thomas Ward	12	17	1929	Jacksonville	AL	Resided in Hot Springs Village, AR
1950	1950	William Blaylock	3	29	1931	Grandfield	OK	Lived in Fort Smith, AR
1952	1953	Marshall Cramer	7	25	1930	Norwood	MO	Lived in Marion, AR
1958	1963	Elmer Lindsey	2	22	1940			Lived in Forrest City, AR
1950	1965	Wally Moon	4	3	1930	Bay	AR
1950	1961	Mel Wright	5	11	1928	Manila	AR
1950	1967	Jim King	8	27	1932	Elkins	AR
1951	1967	Gene Stephens	1	20	1933	Gravette	AR
1951	1961	Solly Drake	10	23	1930	Little Rock	AR
1951	1965	Lee Tate	3	18	1932	Black Rock	AR
1952	1959	Jack McMahan	7	25	1932	Hot Springs	AR
1953	1961	Chuck Daniel	9	17	1933	Bluffton	AR
1954	1969	Floyd Robinson	5	9	1936	Prescott	AR
1954	1971	Carl Boles	10	31	1934	Center Point	AR
1955	1977	Brooks Robinson	5	18	1937	Little Rock	AR
1955	1972	Jim McKnight	6	1	1936	Bee Branch	AR
1955	1965	Sammy Drake	10	7	1934	Little Rock	AR
1955	1969	Jesse Gonder	1	20	1936	Monticello	AR
1958	1969	Dick Hughes	2	13	1938	Stephens	AR
1958	1961	Clyde Hampton	1	21	1931	Haynesville	LA	Lived in Hot Springs, AR
1959	1980	Willie Davis	4	15	1940	Mineral Springs	AR
1959	1971	Weldon Bowlin	12	10	1940	Paragould	AR
1953	1953	Rudy Palmer	1	17	1929	Greenbrier	AR
1956	1957	Jerry McKinnis						Resides in Little Rock, AR
1954	1959	Dizzy Dean Higginbottom	10	19	1935		AR
1957	1963	Burbon Wheeler	8	1	1938	Waldo	AR
1956	1962	Ford Young	7	22	1936	Swain	AR
1953	1953	Lewis Carpenter	1	12	1932	Hayti	MO	Lived in West Memphis; NFL
1954	1954	Donz Stevens	1	15	1929	Emerson	AR
1957	1957	John Rose	9	5	1935	Ripley	TN	Lived in Jonesboro and Little Rock, AR
1958	1964	Richard Johnson	7	26	1936	South Charleston	WV	Lived in Jonesboro, AR
1952	1952	Dean Friend	10	27	1932	Hot Springs	AR
1951	1951	Gene Cork	1	14	1925	Tuscaloosa	AL	Arkansas State Teachers College
1951	1951	Adrian McBride	9	20	1923	Havana	AR	Arkansas State Teachers College
1957	1957	Jim Solomon			Abt. 1935		AR	Lived in Bee Branch, AR; Southern Arkansas University
1953	1953	James Lilly	11	10	1934	Morrilton	AR
1951	1954	Hubert Brooks	4	14	1930		AR
1955	1958	Freddie Duvall	12	11	1935		AR
1950	1950	Charles Gray	2	1	1932	North Little Rock	AR
1951	1956	Larry Paladino	8	15	1929	Center Ridge	AR
1952	1952	Dick Coffman	8	13	1930	St. Louis	MO	Lived in Little Rock, AR.
1954	1956	Jim Spencer	8	14	1933	Batesville	AR
1951	1952	Leroy Verucchi	8	22	1931	Tontitown	AR
1953	1953	Harold Bateman	11	30	1932	Tulsa	OK	Lived in Fort Smith, AR
1950	1956	Marvin Holleman	12	11	1923	Chidester	AR
1954	1954	Leroy Douglas			~1934		AR