A while back I wrote about two exceedingly minor pitchers for the Kansas City Monarchs, Lightner (1920) and Linder (1922), who had been combined into one person in reference books. The 1922 pitcher, it turned out, was an Army veteran named William Linder who joined the team along with Heavy Johnson and Branch Russell, while I built up a somewhat circumstantial case that the 1920 pitcher was a Kansas City man named Charley Lightner.
Now there’s verification, in the form of an article from the Kansas City Sun (May 1, 1920), that the Monarchs’ pitcher was in fact Charley Lightner. By the way, “Bare” would be the Cuban outfielder Bernardo Baró, who was listed with the Monarchs on several preseason rosters, but ended up with the Cuban Stars.
Now there’s verification, in the form of an article from the Kansas City Sun (May 1, 1920), that the Monarchs’ pitcher was in fact Charley Lightner. By the way, “Bare” would be the Cuban outfielder Bernardo Baró, who was listed with the Monarchs on several preseason rosters, but ended up with the Cuban Stars.
Posted by Gary Ashwill
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