Newell Whitney Kimball (March 27, 1915 – March 22, 2001) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. Born in

Logan, Utah Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2020 census recorded the population was 52,778. Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin ...

, Kimball was listed as tall and . After attending Santa Monica High School in Southern California, he was signed by the

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in 1934, winning twenty games for their Class C Ponca City Angels affiliate as a nineteen-year-old. He worked his way up the Cubs chain, eventually being called up late in both the 1937 and 1938 seasons, before Chicago returned him to the minors in 1939. In 1940, the Cubs dealt Kimball to the

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, who used him mainly in relief through 1943. He would appear in two games for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1940 and a partial season for the 1943

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before heading back to the

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. After three seasons with the PCL Hollywood Stars, Kimball was hired by the

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in 1947 to manage their new Class D club, the

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. The club finished third in the six-team

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, and Kimball (despite a 14–5 record on the mound and a .361 batting average), was let go as both player and manager at season's end. Taking a liking to Las Vegas, he stayed in town and took over the helm for the 1951 Wranglers, now playing in the

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. After a 72–71 finish, Kimball left professional baseball after a 15-year career. Kimball died in Las Vegas in 2001, just a few days shy of his 86th birthday.

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