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Buddy Blair

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Name
  
Buddy Blair


Role
  
Baseball athlete

Buddy Blair Mitchell named Buddy Blair Award winner

Died
  
1996, Monroe, Louisiana, United States

Education
  
Louisiana State University

Louis Nathan Blair (September 10, 1910 – July 7, 1996) was an American Major League Baseball infielder. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1942 season.

In college, Blair was named to the All-Tournament Second Team in the very first SEC Men's Basketball Tournament in 1933. He was a forward for Louisiana State University which made it to the semi-finals in the tournament. Blair played on the 1935 team that won the American Legion Bowl in Atlantic City which the team claims the National Championship for. They beat the Pitt Panthers 41-37.

References

Buddy Blair Wikipedia