:Woody Crowson

{{Short description|American baseball player (1918–1947)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Woody Crowson

| team =

| number =

| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|09|09}}

| birth_place = Fuquay Springs, North Carolina

| death_date = {{death date and age|1947|08|14|1918|09|09}}

| death_place = Greensboro, North Carolina

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

|debutleague = MLB

| debutdate = April 17

| debutyear = 1945

| debutteam = Philadelphia Athletics

|finalleague = MLB

| finaldate = April 17

| finalyear = 1945

| finalteam = Philadelphia Athletics

| statyear = 1945

|statleague = MLB

| stat1label = Win–loss record

| stat1value = 0–0

| stat2label = Earned run average

| stat2value = 6.00

| stat3label = Strikeouts

| stat3value = 2

| teams = * Philadelphia Athletics ({{baseball year|1945}})

}}

Thomas Woodrow Crowson (September 9, 1918 – August 14, 1947) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics during the {{Baseball year|1945}} season. He died at age 28, while playing for the Greensboro Patriots, after the team bus he was on was sideswiped by a melon truck.{{cite web |last1=Harner |first1=Andrew |title=August 17, 1947: After Woody Crowson dies in bus accident, Greensboro and Raleigh play in his honor |url=https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/august-17-1947-after-woody-crowson-dies-in-bus-accident-greensboro-and-raleigh-play-in-his-honor/ |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research |access-date=9 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814130802/https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/august-17-1947-after-woody-crowson-dies-in-bus-accident-greensboro-and-raleigh-play-in-his-honor/ |archive-date=14 August 2022 |language=en |url-status=live}}

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