Ted Kennedy (baseball)
Theodore A. Kennedy, Ted was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from -. He would play for the Louisville Colonels, Philadelphia Athletics, and Chicago White Stockings. , he sold his patents to the A.G. Spalding Company and opened a baseball school, specializing in teaching the curveball, and also manufactured sporting goods - specifically baseball gloves and catcher's mitts. He also invented a pitching machine and was developing the first electric scoreboard at the time of his death.
Married to Regina. They had four children: Fannie, Mabel, Herbert and Viola.
In 1976, Kennedy's grandson, Dick Metzger, donated his grandfather's collection of memorable to the Baseball Hall of Fame library. includes: Two scrapbooks of lessons, which are hand drawn, handwritten and typed; his glove patterns, with each piece cut out, ready to be assembled; flyers, brochures and articles with playing instructions to pitchers and players; and how to order a glove through the mail. Another donation of memorabilia was donated to the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame.
Buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Mo.
