Ralph Bell

Ralph Albert "Lefty" Bell (November 16, 1890 – October 18, 1959) was an American professional baseball player from 1909 to 1916. A pitcher, he appeared in three Major League Baseball games for the Chicago White Sox in 1912. Bell was tall and weighed .

Career Bell was born in Argyle, Iowa, in 1890. With his family, he moved to nearby Kahoka, in Missouri, in his childhood. He started his professional baseball career in 1909. That season, he pitched for two minor league teams and won nine games for each. Instead, Bell spent the 1910 season with the Western Association's Joplin Miners. In 33 games for Joplin, he went 21-7 and led the league in wins. The Miners finished the season in first place with a record of 90-34 and is considered one of the greatest minor league teams of all time.

The following season, Bell pitched for the Central Association's Burlington Pathfinders and won 21 games again. After starting 1912 with a record of 12–8, he was purchased by the Chicago White Sox of the American League. He made three relief appearances for the White Sox in July and allowed six earned runs in six innings. He played for Winona again in 1914 and won 15.

Bell's professional baseball career ended after the 1916 season. Overall, he went 156–90 in the minor leagues for a career .634 winning percentage. Bell died in Burlington, Iowa, in 1959.