Claire Vernon "Pep" Goodwin was a

Federal League The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that played its first season as a minor league in 1913 and operated as a "third major league", in competition with the e ...

baseball player for the

Kansas City Packers The Kansas City Packers were a Federal League baseball club in Kansas City from 1914 to 1915. They finished sixth in 1914 with a 67–84 record, and fourth in 1915 with an 81–72 record. The Packers moved to Kansas City in July 1913 from Covin ...

in 1914–15. He batted left and threw right-handed. He weighed 160 lbs. He went to the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

. His first game was on April 16, 1914, and his last game was on October 3, 1915. He was born in

Pocatello, Idaho Pocatello () is the county seat of and largest city in Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the ...

on December 19, 1891, and died on February 15, 1972, in

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* Major League Baseball shortstops Kansas City Packers players Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players Topeka Savages players Wichita Witches players Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players Sioux City Indians players Sioux City Cardinals players Baseball players from Idaho Sportspeople from Pocatello, Idaho 1891 births 1972 deaths {{US-baseball-shortstop-stub