Eddie Phillips, 80; Played in Nine Games for the 1953 St. Louis Cardinals
Bill Schenley
(Paid obit)
Ashburn
Howard Ed Phillips, 80, of Hannibal, Mo., died
at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, at Willow Care
Center in Hannibal, Mo.
Funeral services are pending at the James O'Donnell
Funeral Home.
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MLB Stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/philled02.shtml
Thanks to Dave Lambert for this obit.
Bill Schenley
of nine games as a pinch runner: he neither
batted nor fielded in the majors, but scored four
runs.
Among players who never batted in the majors,
he ranks second in career runs, behind only
Herb Washington. (Ron Guidry, strangely,
also scored four runs without batting in the
regular season; but Guidry did bat in the World
Series.)"
FROM: The Hannibal Courier-Post ~
(Paid obit)
Photo: http://snipurl.com/12rul8
Hannibal, MO
Howard “Ed” Phillips, 80, of Hannibal,
died at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010,
at Willow Care Center in Hannibal.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday,
Sept. 13, at the Arch United Methodist
Church in Hannibal. The Rev. Eric R. Mattson
will officiate. Burial will be at Grand View
Burial Park in Hannibal. The James O’Donnell
Funeral Home in Hannibal is in charge of
arrangements.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 12, at the James O’Donnell
Funeral Home.
Mr. Phillips was born July 8, 1930, in
St. Louis to Raymond and Estella Schaffer
Phillips.
He was married to Joyce Easley on March
6, 1959, in St. Louis. She survives.
Other survivors include one son, Eddie Phillips
Jr. (Shelly), Springfield, Mo.; a daughter, Pamela
Giacomini (Steve), Roseville, Calif.; sisters-in-law,
Edna Mae Skinner, Lou Skinner, Betty Quinn
and Kathy Shores (Steve); five grandchildren,
Beau Phillips, Kyndall Phillips, Karsyn Phillips,
Jaelyn Giacomini and Jordyn Giacomini; and
one special niece, Randi Widaman (Chuck).
He is also survived by numerous nieces and
nephews
Mr. Phillips was preceded in death by his
parents; three brothers, Woodrow Skinner,
Earl Skinner and Marvin Skinner; and one
brother-in-law, Bob Quinn.
Mr. Phillips was born in St. Louis in 1931 but
grew up in Hannibal after his father, a railroad
engineer, was transferred here. As a kid,
Ed played baseball as often as he could.
A St. Louis Cardinal scout signed him in 1950
after seeing him play a handful of sandlot games.
He was sent to a club in West Frankfort, Ill., in
the Class D Mississippi-Ohio Valley League,
where he batted .297. It was the first of many
successful seasons offensively for Phillips,
a switch-hitter. He would bat over .300 three
times in the minors, including a .320 mark that
netted him the Class A Western League batting
crown in 1952. After Ed hit .306 for their
Double-A team, Houston, in 1953, the Cardinals
brought him up to the majors for the rest of the
season. In each of the next two seasons, he was
invited to the Cardinals’ major league spring
camp, but wound up being assigned to Class
AAA.
Mr. Phillips played infield and outfield during
the era of Stan Musial and Red Schoendienst,
and it was tough to bump those legendary
players out of a job. He stuck it out in the minors
until 1960, then left baseball, realizing he’d never
be called to the majors again. He went to work
for the American Cyanamid plant in Hannibal,
retiring as a foreman after 25 years of service.
In his spare time, he loved to golf at the American
Legion Course, volunteering and helping to care
for the golf course. He also loved to fish. He was
a member of Arch United Methodist Church.
Pallbearers will be Emmett Herron, Paul
Dougherty, Kenneth Lawson, Russell DeLaPorte,
Bill Wilson and Kenneth Dusenberry.
Honorary pallbearers will be Chuck Widaman,
Donley Lear, Don Stolberg, Charlie Lake,
Archie Allen, Weldon Calvert, Don Brawley,
Tom Givan, Bob Yarbrough, Ralph Brinkley
and Ralph Brinkley Jr.
Memorial contributions may be made to Arch
United Methodist Church.