Professional Baseball Players (Debuted 1950-1959)

The following table includes an incomplete list of Professional Baseball Players from Arkansas who debuted between 1950-1959, sorted chronologically by first year in professional baseball (including minors). To sort columns, click on the column headers.

From To Name Birth Mo. Birth Day Birth Year Birth City Birth State Notes
1953 1953 Willie Cunningham 6 7 1935 Snow Lake AR
1953 1953 Clyde Johnson 5 24 1935 Mulberry AR
1953 1953 Ben Yates 4 22 1934 Hunt AR
1959 1959 Charles Cosby 8 9 1937 Prairie Grove AR
1955 1955 Jerome Armour 6 10 1934 Bono AR
1950 1950 Charles Gray 2 1 1932 North Little Rock AR
1950 1957 Harry Young 10 26 1929 Hardin TX Resided in Alleene, AR
1950 1951 Durward McGaha 10 16 1925 Stella AR
1950 1950 Billy Wayne Hollis 3 22 1930 Bearden AR
1950 1953 Earl Dollins 12 24 1923 Corning AR
1950 1950 Babe Eubanks 3 14 1922 Mena AR
1950 1950 Benny Bennett 9 25 1930 Newport AR
1950 1954 Ewell Utley 9 28 1931 Paris AR
1950 1950 Curtis McElhaney 8 21 1928 Thorney AR
1950 1953 James Price 8 1 1927 Vandervoort AR
1950 1954 Tom Vines 6 20 1929 AR
1951 1953 Charlie Richison 1 14 1929 Keota OK Lived in Fort Smith, AR
1951 1951 Joe Roe 8 7 1931 Viola AR Nephew of Preacher Roe
1951 1954 Jesse Bucy 1930 Rector AR
1951 1953 James Jaynes 2 15 1928 AR
1951 1954 John Joyner 3 10 1929 AR
1951 1951 Ulysses Burks 7 5 1927 AR
1951 1956 Marvin Stendel MO Attended the University of Arkansas
1951 1951 John Prickett 3 30 1931 Bryant AR
1951 1951 Billy Weir 1 20 1932 Caraway AR
1951 1954 Arky Stanton 9 1 1932 Diggott AR
1951 1951 Jerry Culwell 4 30 1932 Hector AR
1951 1951 Tony Falcinelli 1 22 1911 Helena AR
1951 1956 Jerry Dean 8 23 1929 AR
1951 1954 James Knox 2 3 1935 Little Rock AR
1951 1954 Ross McCormack 3 18 1931 Melborne AR
1951 1952 Jim Albright 9 10 1928 Newport AR
1951 1958 Bobby Winkles 3 11 1930 Tuckerman AR
1951 1951 Marshall Riddle 4 22 1918 Warren AR
1952 1952 Winston Norton 7 6 1928 Hooker AR
1952 1952 Howard Rapert 10 29 1932 Randolph County AR
1952 1952 Scotty Robertson 2 1 1930 Fort Smith AR
1952 1955 Charles Keller 7 4 1933 Jonesboro AR
1952 1960 Joe Porter 12 30 1932 Lake City AR
1952 1957 John Geesing 2 9 1933 Paris AR
1952 1953 Russ Butler 7 29 1924 Paris AR
1952 1954 John Trucks 9 7 1934 Rison AR
1952 1952 Arnie Kanady 2 8 1932 Sims AR
1952 1957 Vernon Summers 9 10 1933 AR
1953 1955 Don Speer 4 4 1935 Booneville AR Son of Floyd Speer
1953 1953 John Greenway 11 30 1925 Blocker AR
1953 1954 Shapard Pryor 2 23 1932 AR Attended Arkansas State University
1953 1956 Art Williams 2 24 1934 Camden AR
1953 1954 Zeb Walker 10 19 1930 Dermott AR
1953 1954 Don King 3 23 1934 Elkins AR
1953 1956 Jerry Wright 8 31 1934 Fort Smith AR
1953 1969 Ollie Brantley 1932 Lexon AR
1953 1957 Billy Girdley 1 24 1934 Osceola AR
1953 1953 Bernard Geels 9 27 1930 Scranton AR
1953 1953 Billy Puckett 11 24 1930 Hot Springs AR
1954 1954 Duane Hudson 4 15 1935 Cherry Valley AR
1954 1954 Alphonso Preston 7 30 1931 Menifee AR
1954 1960 Frankie Shell 7 6 1933 Sage AR
1954 1957 Robert Geels 11 23 1933 Scranton AR
1954 1954 Edsel Nix 3 6 1932 Texarkana AR Attended University of Arkansas
1955 1955 James Farrar 7 7 1931 El Dorado AR
1955 1955 George Dicus 5 19 1937 Little Rock AR
1956 1967 Walt Matthews 10 19 1934 Ashdown AR
1956 1961 Charles Bogan 11 12 1934 Fayetteville AR
1956 1968 Don Williams 12 24 1937 Paragould AR
1959 1959 Gene Wofford 4 20 1935 Greenbrier AR
1959 1959 Jim Hornibrook 10 2 1938 Little Rock AR
1952 1955 Theolic Smith 5 19 1913 Wabbesika AR
1950 1956 Napoleon Gulley 8 29 1924 Huttig AR
1952 1952 Andrew Porter 3 7 1911 Little Rock AR
1959 1959 William McDonald 7 21 1938 Paragould AR S/o Grayson McDonald Sr.
1958 1961 George Alexander 9 13 1938 Fayetteville AR
1951 1954 Charles Slaber 11 13 1931 Cook County IL Lived in El Dorado, AR
1956 1958 Charles Edward Clark 2 20 1933 McCrory AR
1953 1955 Louie Schaufele 1 14 1930 AR
1951 1955 Dick Thompson 9 9 1929 Shanghai China Lived in Little Rock, AR
1953 1953 Ernie Crone ~1930 AR
1950 1955 Edgar Rowe 4 3 1930 El Paso TX Lived in Little Rock, AR
1950 1950 Glenn Evans 2 8 1930 Little Rock AR
1951 1956 Frank Lucas Lived in Little Rock, AR
1951 1954 Clell Callaway 1 14 1933 Arkadelphia AR Brother of Charles and Joe
1954 1955 Ernest Tabor 8 15 1936 AR
1954 1955 Charles Callaway 6 1 1936 Hollywood AR Brother of Clell and Joe
1954 1954 Thomas Lauderdale 5 16 1936 AR
1958 1959 Robert Stolzer 9 9 1936 AR
1954 1954 Harold Ellingson ~1936 AR
1953 1955 John Venable Lived in Little Rock, AR
1950 1950 Walter Coleman 8 31 1928 Little Rock AR
1951 1951 Vince Robison 9 15 1930 Morrilton AR
1957 1957 John Walter Rose Sr. 9 5 1935 Ripley TN Resided in AR
1951 1954 John Balay 9 16 1930 Joplin MO Resided in AR
1956 1956 Joe Kretschmar 5 2 1934 Jefferson City MO Resided in Prairie Grove, AR
1951 1951 William Talbot 7 24 1927 Centerville MS Resided in Magnolia, AR
1953 1953 Lyndell Foster 12 30 1931 Fort Smith AR
1953 1957 Eugene McClinton 1 29 1933 Des Moines IA Resided in Little Rock, AR
1954 1957 Geral Hurley 3 6 1938 Pope AR
1953 1953 Thomas Ward 12 17 1929 Jacksonville AL Resided in Hot Springs Village, AR
1950 1950 William Blaylock 3 29 1931 Grandfield OK Lived in Fort Smith, AR
1952 1953 Marshall Cramer 7 25 1930 Norwood MO Lived in Marion, AR
1958 1963 Elmer Lindsey 2 22 1940 Lived in Forrest City, AR
1950 1965 Wally Moon 4 3 1930 Bay AR
1950 1961 Mel Wright 5 11 1928 Manila AR
1950 1967 Jim King 8 27 1932 Elkins AR
1951 1967 Gene Stephens 1 20 1933 Gravette AR
1951 1961 Solly Drake 10 23 1930 Little Rock AR
1951 1965 Lee Tate 3 18 1932 Black Rock AR
1952 1959 Jack McMahan 7 25 1932 Hot Springs AR
1953 1961 Chuck Daniel 9 17 1933 Bluffton AR
1954 1969 Floyd Robinson 5 9 1936 Prescott AR
1954 1971 Carl Boles 10 31 1934 Center Point AR
1955 1977 Brooks Robinson 5 18 1937 Little Rock AR
1955 1972 Jim McKnight 6 1 1936 Bee Branch AR
1955 1965 Sammy Drake 10 7 1934 Little Rock AR
1955 1969 Jesse Gonder 1 20 1936 Monticello AR
1958 1969 Dick Hughes 2 13 1938 Stephens AR
1958 1961 Clyde Hampton 1 21 1931 Haynesville LA Lived in Hot Springs, AR
1959 1980 Willie Davis 4 15 1940 Mineral Springs AR
1959 1971 Weldon Bowlin 12 10 1940 Paragould AR
1953 1953 Rudy Palmer 1 17 1929 Greenbrier AR
1956 1957 Jerry McKinnis Resides in Little Rock, AR
1954 1959 Dizzy Dean Higginbottom 10 19 1935 AR
1957 1963 Burbon Wheeler 8 1 1938 Waldo AR
1956 1962 Ford Young 7 22 1936 Swain AR
1953 1953 Lewis Carpenter 1 12 1932 Hayti MO Lived in West Memphis; NFL
1954 1954 Donz Stevens 1 15 1929 Emerson AR
1957 1957 John Rose 9 5 1935 Ripley TN Lived in Jonesboro and Little Rock, AR
1958 1964 Richard Johnson 7 26 1936 South Charleston WV Lived in Jonesboro, AR
1952 1952 Dean Friend 10 27 1932 Hot Springs AR
1951 1951 Gene Cork 1 14 1925 Tuscaloosa AL Arkansas State Teachers College
1951 1951 Adrian McBride 9 20 1923 Havana AR Arkansas State Teachers College
1957 1957 Jim Solomon Abt. 1935 AR Lived in Bee Branch, AR; Southern Arkansas University
1953 1953 James Lilly 11 10 1934 Morrilton AR
1951 1954 Hubert Brooks 4 14 1930 AR
1955 1958 Freddie Duvall 12 11 1935 AR
1950 1950 Charles Gray 2 1 1932 North Little Rock AR
1951 1956 Larry Paladino 8 15 1929 Center Ridge AR
1952 1952 Dick Coffman 8 13 1930 St. Louis MO Lived in Little Rock, AR.
1954 1956 Jim Spencer 8 14 1933 Batesville AR
1951 1952 Leroy Verucchi 8 22 1931 Tontitown AR
1953 1953 Harold Bateman 11 30 1932 Tulsa OK Lived in Fort Smith, AR
1950 1956 Marvin Holleman 12 11 1923 Chidester AR
1954 1954 Leroy Douglas 2 8 1934 Coal Hill AR
1952 1954 Don King 3 23 1934 Elkins AR