Harry O'Donnell Scouting Notebooks : notebooks 1953-1957.

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Harry O'Donnell Scouting Notebooks : notebooks 1953-1957.

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A collection of five spiral notebooks kept by Harry O'Donnell while scouting for Cleveland and Chicago White Sox. Each notebook has handwritten notes by O'Donnell to various people between 1953 and 1957. Notes are to sub-scouts about potential players, mostly high schoolers. Notes refer to upcoming tryout camps, hiring of sub-scouts and to potential players and parents. Notebook one mentions Al Kaline when he was still in high school. Notebook two has note to Cleveland's general manager Hank Greenberg. Notebook five has notes from O'Donnell to the Milwaukee Braves and to the Chicago teams asking for a scouting position, includes his career resume.

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Greenberg, Hank, 1911-1986

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O'Donnell, Harry H, 1894 - 1958.

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Harry O'Donnell played in 1927 for Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics as a catcher but was back in the International League in 1928. He was hired as a part-time scout for Philadelphia in 1930, became a full time scout in 1933 and chief scout in 1940. He remained with Philadelphia until 1952. He then became chief scout for the Cleveland organization from 1952 to 1956. He scouted for the Chicago White Sox starting in 1956. O'Donnell was born in 1894 and died in 1958. From the de...