Scott Russell Cary was a Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

 pitcher

Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...

 who played for the Washington Senators

Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...

 in 1947. He went 3-1 with a 5.93 earned run average

Earned run average

In baseball statistics, earned run average is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine...

 in 23 games as a pitcher, starting 3 games.

Personal

Cary was one of 10 children born to John and Ruby (Riehm) Cary. On January 19, 1946, he married Mary Hurley in Sturgis and together they raised six children on a farm in East Gilead in rural Branch County, Michigan

Branch County, Michigan

-Demographics:As of the 2000 census, there were 45,787 people, 16,349 households, and 11,575 families residing in the county. The population density was 90 people per square mile . There were 19,822 housing units at an average density of 39 per square mile...

. He was inducted into the Fort Wayne Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977. Cary was a baseball coach for the Bronson Little League and the Babe Ruth Baseball programs.

External links

• Scott Cary's obit