William H. Southworth

(1893-1969) born in Harvard, Clay County. Baseball player and manager, played in the outfield in 13 major league seasons and helped the 1926 St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series, managed 13 major league seasons, compiling the 6th best winning percentage, managed two world championship teams in 1942 and 1944, and two pennant-winning teams in 1943 and 1948, appeared on the cover of Newsweek, April 26, 1948. Consult Saturday Evening Post, August 9, 1941, pp. 18-19, 58-59, 61-63 and Current Biography (1944) 641-644 and New York Times obituary, November 16, 1969, p. 86 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 3 (Greenwood Press, 2000)) 1448-1449.

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