Position Halfback/Quarterback Name Red Barnes Class Graduate Role Baseball player | Weight 78 kg | |
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Date of birth (1904-12-25)December 25, 1904 Date of death July 3, 1959(1959-07-03) (aged 54) Died July 3, 1959, Mobile, Alabama, United States College Alabama Crimson Tide football (1925–1926) | ||
Bowl games Rose Bowl (1926, 1927) Place of birth Suggsville, Alabama | ||
Emile Deering Barnes (December 25, 1904 – July 3, 1959) was an American outfielder jn Major League Baseball who played from 1927 through 1930 for the Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox. Listed at 5' 10", 158 lb., Barnes batted left handed and threw right handed. He was born in Suggsville, Alabama. His cousin, Sam Barnes, also played in the majors.
Barnes posted a .269 batting average in 286 career games. In between, he played in the Minor Leagues in all or parts of 14 seasons spanning 1927–1994, hitting .269 with 100 home runs in 1,413 games.
Besides, Barnes was a quarterback for Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams, starting in the 1927 Rose Bowl.
Barnes died in 1959 in Mobile, Alabama, at the age of 54.
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