DELMAR AFTER CLUNN
Delmar Team Makes
Reading Twirler Offer For Season
Delmar, Del. – June 23rd
– The Management of the Delmar Baseball team sent a message to “Lefty” Clunn,
of the Tri-State team, last night, making an offer of $30 per week and all
expenses for three months. Clunn has
twirled for the locals for the past three seasons, and during his career here
has lost but one game. It is thought he
will get his release from the Reading management and return here.
Above from the Morning
News (Wilmington) June 24, 1914
Floyd Clunn
(1886-1961) was from Millville, NJ. He
was widely known in the baseball world in the early 1900s. As the above article says he had played for Delmar
before. He played football and baseball
and in between he worked for the railroad.
He started playing pro ball in
southern New Jersey and was picked up by the New York Yankees but was then sold
to the Bridgeport (Ct) Mechanics team where he played from about 1910 to 1911
as “Chalky” Clunn. After he left the New
England league he played in the Tri-State League of Delaware, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey under the nickname “Lefty” Clunn.
He was a left handed pitcher and he played on just about every team in
the Tri-State League. In 1915 he went
with the Western League and played part of a season for the Topeka (Kansas)
Savages. In July of 1915 he left the
Topeka team to go back to Millville and marry Edith. They had sons named Floyd,
Jr., Howard and Charles He liked to draw and work in his
garden and after leaving baseball he ran a framing shop and garden center in
Millville.
above from the Topeka State Journal April 30 1915
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