Percy Coleman (baseball)

Pierce Devon "Percy" Coleman (October 10, 1876 – February 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played parts of two Major League seasons.

[2] His final game was on October 1, 1898; the Cincinnati Enquirer story reported "Coleman pitched fairly good ball" with 6 innings giving up just one run before tiring in the seventh in a 7-3 complete-game loss to St.

[4] After his big-league career ended, he compiled a record of 22–18 in three seasons (1898–1900) in the minor leagues in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Savannah, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, San Antonio, Texas and Portsmouth, Virginia.

By far his best season was 1899 at age 22 for the San Antonio Bronchos in the Class C Texas League as he led the team in wins with a 13–8 record, starting 21 games and completing 20 with 183 innings pitched.

[8] A 1922 newspaper article stated that, on Majel's 19th birthday, she "received an instrument of destruction this week in the shape of a snappy speedster (car) from her father, P.D.