Charley Hall

Charles Louis Hall (July 27, 1884 – December 6, 1943) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, and Detroit Tigers. He pitched in 118 games totalling innings. He had 427 strikeouts, a 3.09 earned run average (ERA), and 3 shutouts. He started 81 games.

As a hitter, Hall was a better than average hitting pitcher, posting a .197 batting average (73-for-371) with 32 runs, 2 home runs, 40 RBIs and 17 bases on balls. In the 1912 World Series, in two pitching appearances, he hit .750 (3-for-4) with 1 double and 1 walk.

Early life Hall was born on July 27, 1884, in Ventura, California, to Arthur and Elvira (Mungari) Hall; he was christened Carlos Luis Hall. His mother was a descendant of the Californios who founded the Presidio of Santa Barbara in the eighteenth century and both Spanish and English were spoken in the home. One of his Red Sox teammates, Eddie Cicotte, later jokingly insisted that Hall's real name was "Carlos Cholo," which some reference works have repeated as fact.

Personal life Hall married his first wife Emma in 1906; they had a son, Marshall. After Emma died in childbirth in 1909, Marshall was raised by her parents. Hall then married Marie Cullen in 1911; they had two sons, Charley and Kenneth. His son Charley, as a six year old, accidentally shot and killed his three-year-old brother in 1920.

Hall worked as a policeman, jailer, and deputy sheriff after he retired from baseball. He died from Parkinson's disease in 1943. Fred Lieb's obituary of Hall in The Sporting News marked his passing: "Many a player who played with Charley or batted against him must have felt a passing regret that the big Sea Lion had roared his last."