Earl Percy Reid (June 8, 1913 – May 11, 1984) was a professional

baseball player Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding te ...

. He was a right-handed

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for one season (1946) with the Boston Braves. For his career, he compiled a 1-0 record, with a 3.00

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, and two strikeouts in three innings pitched. Reid was born in

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and later died in

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at the age of 70.

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