Samuel Edward Dodge was a relief pitcher

Relief pitcher

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 in Major League Baseball

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 who played between 1921

1921 in baseball

-Headline Events of the Year:*First radio broadcast of the World Series.*Babe Ruth breaks Roger Connor's All-Time Home Run record of 138.-Champions:*World Series: New York Giants over New York Yankees -MLB statistical leaders:...

 and 1922

1922 in baseball

-Champions:*World Series: New York Giants over New York Yankees -Statistical leaders:-American League final standings:-National League final standings:-Negro National League final standings:-East final standings:...

 for the Boston Red Sox

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. Listed at 6' 1", 170 lb, Dodge batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Neath, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, United States. Neath is now known only to locals as an area in the eastern district of Pike Township, Bradford County; it doesn't appear on most maps.

Dodge posted a 4.50 ERA

Earned run average

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 with three strikeout

Strikeout

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s and 6.0 innings

Innings pitched

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 of work in four appearances. He did not have a decision.

During his mature life, he worked in the lumber camps of upstate New York. In about 1956, Dodge returned to the village of his birth, Neath, Pa. He lived for a winter at the Roy James farm south of Warren Center, working as a farm hand, helping in the saw mill and sleeping in the barn. The instance always reminds this writer who was 12 years old at the time of Frost's "Death of the Hired Hand." Dodge had one sister who may have lived in the Johnson City area. He returned north in New York State and died in Utica, New York

Utica, New York

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, at the age of 76. But his body was returned to be interred at Neath. [wjh, 1/1/2009]

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