Melburn Ellis Simons (July 1, 1900 – November 10, 1974), nicknamed "Butch", 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 tea ...

. He was an

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over parts of two seasons (1931–32) with the

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. For his career, he compiled a .268 batting average in 194

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s, with twelve

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. He was born in Carlyle, Illinois and died in Paducah, Kentucky at the age of 74.

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