Ellis Kinder Essentials Positions: Bats: R Throws: R Height: 72 Weight: 195 Born: Sunday, July 26, 1914 in Atkins, AR USA Died: 10 16 1968 in Jackson, TN USA Debut: 4/30/1946 Last Game: 5/8/1957 Full Name: Ellis Raymond Kinder
The White Sox purchase Cardinal relief pitcher Ellis Kinder.
The Red Sox sell 41-year-old pitcher Ellis Kinder to the Cardinals. He will team up with the like-aged Walker Cooper to form just the second 40+ battery. Curt Davis and Clyde Sukeforth, in 1945, are the other such duo.
Jimmy Piersall and New York’s Billy Martin first exchange insults before a game in Boston‚ then exchange punches in the tunnel under the stands. It takes coaches Bill Dickey and Oscar Melillo‚ along with starter Ellis Kinder‚ to break up the fight. Piersall goes to the clubhouse to change his bloody shirt and gets into another brawl with teammate Mickey McDermott. He sits as Ellis Kinder stops the Yanks‚ 5 – 2.
The Red Sox and White Sox draw a record crowd of 52,592 for a twi-night doubleheader at Comiskey Park. Boston wins the opener, 3 – 2. In the second game, Saul Rogovin of the White Sox goes the route in a 17-inning contest, only to lose, 5 – 4, on Clyde Vollmer’s sac fly. Ellis Kinder of Boston pitches 10 scoreless innings in relief for the win.
Vern Stephens is 4 for 4 with two doubles to pace the Red Sox to a 6 – 2 decision over Chicago. Ellis Kinder (6-7) is the only starter not to collect a hit for the first-place Sox.
Denny Galehouse returns to the Red Sox lineup and stops Chicago, 3 – 0. Vern Stephens clouts a two-run homer. In the 2nd game, a 5 – 3 win, Stephens adds a homer to take over the American League RBI lead with 83. The winner is Ellis Kinder, the first of 18 straight wins over Chicago for him (through June 1, 1952).
Ted Williams faces three pitchers in the 7th inning, a first in American League history, as Boston snaps a 5 – 5 tie by scoring 14 runs to beat the visiting Philadelphia Athletics, 20 – 8. A’s pitcher Charlie Harris retires one batter in 14 and coughs up 12 runs, before Bill McCahan takes over. Williams, who makes the final out in the inning, and Bobby Doerr, tie records by drawing two walks apiece. Pitcher Ellis Kinder has two hits, off Harris and McCahan. The 14 runs in one inning is a record, but five years later they will do even better with 17 in one inning.
In the second of two deals between the clubs on consecutive days, St. Louis obtains Sam Dente, Clem Dreisewerd, Bill Sommers, and $65,000 from the Red Sox in exchange for Ellis Kinder and Billy Hitchcock. When the dust settles on the two-day, 13-player transaction, Boston ends up with two top-of-the-rotation hurlers, Kinder and Jack Kramer, and an All-Star offensive shortstop to hit behind Ted Williams, Vern Stephens, and the cash-deprived Browns, in addition to its four new players, receive a total of $375,000.