:Ted Kennedy (baseball)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1865–1907)}}

{{Other people|Ted Kennedy}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ted Kennedy

|image= Ted Kennedy BBHOF.png

|position=Pitcher

|birth_date={{Birth date|1865|2|7}}

|birth_place=Henry, Illinois

|death_date={{death date and age|1907|10|28|1865|2|7}}

|death_place=St. Louis, Missouri

|bats=Left

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=June 12

|debutyear=1885

|debutteam=Chicago White Stockings

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 23

|finalyear=1886

|finalteam=Louisville Colonels

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=W-L Record

|stat1value=12-21

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.32

|stat3label=Strikeout

|stat3value=118

|teams=

• Chicago White Stockings (1885)
• Philadelphia Athletics (1886)
• Louisville Colonels (1886)

}}

File:Theodore A. "Ted" Kennedy, Pitcher, Omaha Omahogs- Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes MET DP846323.jpg, Metropolitan Museum of Art]]

Theodore A. Kennedy (February 7, 1865 in Henry, Illinois – October 28, 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri), Ted was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from {{baseball year|1885}}-{{baseball year|1886}}. He would play for the Louisville Colonels, Philadelphia Athletics, and Chicago White Stockings. [http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/f2e8e118 Inventor of the baseball catcher's mitt], 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 (1887), Mabel (1889), Herbert (1891) and Viola (1896).

In 1976, Kennedy's grandson (Viola's son), Dick Metzger, donated his grandfather's collection of memorabilia to the Baseball Hall of Fame library. [http://baseballhall.org/discover/short-stops/kennedy-library-documents The Ted Kennedy Collection] 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.