Ed Redys

His professional baseball career started as a pitcher in the St. Louis Browns organization.

In 1942, while assigned to the San Antonio Missions minor league team, Redys suffered an ankle injury and did not pitch the rest of the season.

[1] As part of a push for increasing the entertainment value at games, Redys and three other members of the Browns organization formed a band that would play during the Seventh-inning stretch.

Redys was the accordion player, with Al Widmar on bass or fiddle, John Beradino on conga or maracas, and Satchel Paige on snare drum.

Veeck hired Roger Hornsby as the manager and he replaced the entire coaching staff, including Redys after the 1951 season.