Ren Kelly

{{short description|American baseball player (1899-1963)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ren Kelly

|position=Pitcher

|image=1923 Zeenut Ren Kelly.jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1899|11|18}}

|birth_place=San Francisco

|death_date={{death date and age|1963|8|24|1899|11|18}}

|death_place=Millbrae, California

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate= September 18

|debutyear= {{Baseball year|1923}}

|debutteam= Philadelphia Athletics

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate= September 18

|finalyear= {{Baseball year|1923}}

|finalteam= Philadelphia Athletics

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Games played

|stat1value=1

|stat2label=Innings

|stat2value=7

|stat3label=Earned run average

|stat3value=2.57

|teams=

• Philadelphia Athletics ({{Baseball year|1923}})

|highlights=

}}

Reynolds Joseph "Ren" Kelly (November 18, 1899 – August 24, 1963) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in one game for the Philadelphia Athletics on September 18, 1923. In that game, he pitched seven innings in relief, gave up seven hits, two earned runs, while walking four batters, and striking out one.{{cite web| title = Ren Kelly's career stats | publisher = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/K/Pkellr102.htm | accessdate = 2008-08-15}}

Kelly was born and raised in San Francisco, and was the California High School player of the year for 1919,{{cite web|title=Clovis Sports: Scoreboard |publisher=clovisindependent.com |url=http://www.clovisindependent.com/149/story/1598.html |accessdate=2008-08-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025010738/http://www.clovisindependent.com/149/story/1598.html |archivedate=October 25, 2008 }} when he attended San Francisco's Polytechnic High School.{{cite web | title = Alumni History | publisher = cifsf.org | url = http://www.cifsf.org/alumni.htm | accessdate = 2008-08-15 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080828112707/http://cifsf.org/alumni.htm | archivedate = 2008-08-28 }}

Kelly is the younger brother of Hall of Famer George "High Pockets" Kelly, and spent spring training with his brother's New York Giants team in {{Baseball year|1920}}.{{cite web| title = Giant's Colts Get A Bit Too Frisky |work=The New York Times|date=1920-03-03| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00E2DA103BEE32A25750C0A9659C946195D6CF | accessdate = 2008-08-15}} Coach Christy Mathewson like his size, assortment of pitches, and his accurate pitching, but he did not make the team.{{cite web| title = Fletcher Reports at Giants' Camp |work=The New York Times|date=1920-03-09| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950DE7DA163AEE32A2575AC0A9659C946195D6CF | accessdate = 2008-08-15}} His uncle, Bill Lange, and cousin, Rich Chiles, also played Major League Baseball. Kelly died at the age of 63 in Millbrae, California and is interred at Oak Hill Memorial Park in San Jose, California.