Junie Shoaf "Lefty" Barnes (December 1, 1911 – December 31, 1963) was a professional

baseball 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 tea ...

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the 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 ...

who played in two games for the

Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...

in . He attended

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

. When Barnes played with the Reds in 1934, he was one of three players (

Beryl Richmond Beryl Justice Richmond (August 24, 1907 – April 24, 1980) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds during parts of the 1933 and 1934 seasons. Richmond's contract was sold by Baltimore (Internati ...

and Sherman Edwards were the other two) who were not assigned a uniform number.

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