Charlie Berry

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Charlie Berry

Born:	October 18, 1902
Birthplace:	Phillipsburg, NJ
Hometown:
Height:	6' 0"
Weight:	185
Bats:	Right
Throws:	Right
Drafted:	N/A
College:	Lafayette
High School:
Other Teams:	Athletics 1925, 1934-36, 1938, White Sox 1932-33
Years with Boston:	1928-1932

1 Overall Career
2 Berry's Moments in the Sun
3 Trivia
4 Transactions
5 External Links

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Overall Career

Charles Francis Berry starred at Lafayette in both baseball and football and went on to play each sport at the professional level, catching for four teams during his 11-year major league career and starring at end and kicker in the NFL for the Pottsville Maroons in 1925 and 1926.

Berry broke into the major leagues with the Philadelphia Athletics on June 15, 1925. A catcher, he appeared in 10 games that season, hitting .214, before joining the Maroons.

Retuning to the diamond in 1928, Berry joined the Red Sox. In his first season in Boston, Berry hit .260/.342/.350 in 80 games. His best years in Boston came in the 1930-1931 seasons before he was dealt to Chicago in 1932. In 1930, at age 27, he hit .289/.331/.441 with career-highs in triples and homeruns (with six each) in 88 games. The following season, Berry played in 111 games, the most of his career, batting .283/.337/.389 with six homeruns (matching a career high) and a career high 49 RBIs.

Overall, Berry hit .267/.322/.374 with 23 career homeruns and 256 RBIs in 709 games.

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Berry's Moments in the Sun

Gotta love those Red Sox-Yankee collisions at home plate. Going (as you might hear during the Sox radio broadcast) "WAY BACK" to April 22, 1931, a Sox legend was carried off the field and hospitalized.... In one corner - actually racing in from third on a sacrifice fly - in the grey flannel, is Babe Ruth. In the other, blocking the plate and wearing the home whites, is Berry. Who won that battle? Well, the Bambino was the one leaving on a stretcher.

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Trivia

Berry was part of Pottsville's 1925 NFL championship squad, leading the team that year with 33 catches (4 for scores) and 365 yards receiving. Returning in 1926, he pulled down 29 more balls for 330 yards and two TDs. Kicking for the Maroons in 1925, he converted 29 PATs and 3 FGs.

After his playing days, Berry was an American League umpire for 21 seasons (1942-1962) and also a linesman in the NFL.

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Transactions

April 29, 1932 - Traded along with cash considerations to the Chicago White Sox by the Boston Red Sox for Bennie Tate, Smead Jolley, and Johnny Watwood.
December 12, 1933 - Traded to the Philadelphia Athletics by the Chicago White Sox for George Earnshaw and Johnny Pasek. The White Sox also included $20,000 in the deal.

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