[1] He made one appearance as a player in Major League Baseball as a pinch hitter for the 1916 St. Louis Browns on September 8, and went hitless in his only at bat against the Detroit Tigers.
[3][4] He had been hired from the New York Yankees organization, where he had previously been secretary and business manager of the Newark Bears, one of the Bombers' two top-level farm clubs.
On August 8, 1946, the team was purchased by a consortium led by Indianapolis businessman Frank McKinney, Columbus, Ohio-based real estate developer John W. Galbreath, Pittsburgh attorney Thomas P. Johnson, and entertainer Bing Crosby.
Ironically, Hamey had previously been Kennedy's peer as the business manager of the Yankees' other top farm team, the Kansas City Blues.
[5] In 1955, Kennedy was player personnel director of the Kansas City Athletics[6] and was working as a scout for the New York Mets at the time of his death, at age 73, in Casselberry, Florida.