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18-833: Barfoot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Clyde Barfoot (1891–1971), Major League Baseball player who played 25 years in professional baseball George Barfoot (born 1812), English cricketer Joan Barfoot (born 1946), Canadian novelist Michael Barfoot (born 1980), former English cricketer Stuart Barfoot (born 1975), English footballer Van T. Barfoot (1919–2012), United States Army officer, Medal of Honor winner Walter Barfoot (1893–1978), Canadian Anglican bishop See also [ edit ] Barfoot & Thompson , privately owned, non-franchised real estate company based in Auckland, New Zealand [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

36-538: A PCL game with three home runs and nine runs batted in . On October 15, 1925, Barfoot pitched 15 innings in a PCL victory over Los Angeles and hit two home runs to win the game, 6–5. Barfoot won 25 games in 1925. Barfoot died in 1971 in Highland Park, California , at age 79. Vernon Tigers Vernon, California, was and still is a small community in Los Angeles County . Vernon fielded

54-570: A PCL team because it was one of only two cities in Los Angeles County where the sale and consumption of alcohol was legal. Vernon used its "wet" distinction to its advantage. The largest enterprise in the town at the time was Doyle's bar, advertised as the "longest bar in the world" with 37 bartenders. Doyle was also a sports promoter, building an arena where world championship boxing matches were held. Tigers owner Pete Maier built Maier Park next to Doyle's bar, which had its own entrance to

72-512: A shot at playing in the major leagues. He made his major league debut with the St. Louis Cardinals on April 13, 1922, at age 30. He appeared in 42 games for the 1922 St. Louis Cardinals team, 40 of those as a relief pitcher. He compiled a 4-5 win–loss record with a 4.21 earned run average (ERA). He led the National League in 1922 with six saves and 25 games finished. He continued with

90-529: A superstar in the silent film era. When the team became known as the Hollywood Stars , Hollywood began taking a collective notice of the team as a result of Arbuckle's ownership. And, the season concluded with the Tigers defeating the rival Angels in the last series of the season, winning the pennant by 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 games. The 1919 season became infamous for the "Black Sox" scandal . As with

108-492: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Clyde Barfoot Clyde Raymond Barfoot (July 8, 1891 – March 11, 1971), nicknamed "Foots" , was an American baseball player. He played professional baseball as a right-handed pitcher 25 years from 1914 to 1938, including three seasons in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals (1922–1923) and Detroit Tigers (1926). Barfoot

126-505: The Detroit Tigers purchased Barfoot and Jack Warner for $ 40,000 and players. He appeared in 11 games for the Tigers in 1926, 10 as a relief pitcher, and compiled a 1–2 record and a 4.88 ERA. He appeared in his final major league game on May 24, 1926. He had a major league career record of 8–10 in 250 1 ⁄ 3 innings, with an ERA of 4.10, five complete games, 55 games finished, 49 strikeouts, and 66 bases on balls. Barfoot

144-411: The surname Barfoot . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barfoot&oldid=1147505671 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

162-663: The Cardinals in 1923, compiling a 3–3 record with a 3.73 ERA in 31 relief appearances and two starts. After his two years in the majors, Barfoot returned to the minors, playing for the Houston Buffaloes in 1924 and compiling a 19–12 record. In 1925, he moved to the Pacific Coast League where he compiled a career best 26–15 record with the Vernon Tigers . In the winter before the 1926 season,

180-497: The Seattle Indians. However, that was the beginning of end of the team. The Eighteenth Amendment had been ratified, criminalizing the production and sale of alcohol everywhere in the U.S., including Vernon. It took effect in 1920. The small population of Vernon became a liability, as fewer Angelenos were willing to travel the distance to watch a game in a "dry" town. Moreover, principal owner Arbuckle found ownership of

198-508: The Tigers moved back to Vernon in 1915. Player-manager Happy Hogan , who had managed the team since 1909 (such that the newspapers sometimes called the team "Hogan's Tigers") died during the 1915 season, of pneumonia. Bob Meusel , later a New York Yankees teammate of Babe Ruth , played for Vernon in 1917 before serving in World War I the following year with the Navy. The Tigers finished

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216-614: The park. In 1913 and 1914, the Tigers played in the oceanside community of Venice , and were known as the Venice Tigers during those seasons. Not coincidentally, Venice was the only other "wet" city in Los Angeles County. On Sundays and special holidays in which alcohol sales were not permitted, the Tigers played their home games at Washington Park , which was primarily the Angels' home field. The team did not draw well in Venice, and

234-427: The tainted World Series of that year, there were rumors that opposing PCL players had been bribed to "throw" games against the Tigers. League President William McCarthy expelled Tiger first baseman Babe Borton and several other players under suspicion of involvement. The Tigers seemed unfazed by the scandal, as they finished first for the third year in a row, winning the 1920 pennant by 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 games over

252-619: The team more work than he had bargained for, and sold his interest in the team later in 1920. As a result, the Hollywood crowd lost interest in the Tigers. As attendance waned, the caliber of play did also, and the team struggled in its final years. After the 1925 season, the team was sold to San Francisco interests and moved to that city to begin play in 1926 as the Mission Reds . After 12 unprofitable seasons in San Francisco,

270-599: The team moved back to Los Angeles for the 1938 season. They were renamed the Hollywood Stars , and established a strong rivalry with the Angels that lasted until the arrival of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1958. As before in Los Angeles for a time, and as in San Francisco, the Stars found themselves being tenants of the more dominant team in the city. However, the Stars would eventually build their own park and achieve

288-534: The war-shortened 1918 season in first place; however, they were defeated by the Los Angeles Angels in a postseason series. This postseason series is often incorrectly identified as a "playoff." That postseason series, however, was unrelated to the PCL playoff system which was established some years later. In early 1919, Maier sold a controlling interest in the Tigers to movie actor Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle ,

306-547: Was 30 years old when he made his major league debut as a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1920. A longtime star in the Texas League , Pacific Coast League (PCL), and Southern Association, he won 314 minor league games in a career that spanned 25 years. Barfoot was an excellent hitter for a pitcher. In 1922, he had a .353 batting average , a .421 on-base percentage , and a .441 slugging percentage in 34 at bats. On October 9, 1926, Barfoot went 3-for-5 in

324-532: Was born in Richmond, Virginia , in 1891. Barfoot began his professional baseball career playing in the minor leagues for the Chattanooga Lookouts (1914), Galveston Pirates (1914–1917), San Antonio Bronchos (1917–1920), Newark Bears (1918), Columbus Senators (1918), New Orleans Pelicans (1920), and Houston Buffaloes (1921). After compiling a 22–13 record with Houston in 1922, he got

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