Ted Easterly

{{Short description|American baseball player (1885–1951)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ted Easterly

|position=Catcher

|image=Ted Easterly card.jpg

|bats=Left

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1885|4|20|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1951|7|6|1885|4|20}}

|death_place=Clearlake Highlands, California, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 17

|debutyear=1909

|debutteam=Cleveland Naps

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 3

|finalyear=1915

|finalteam=Kansas City Packers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.300

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=8

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=261

|teams=

• Cleveland Naps ({{mlby|1909}}–{{mlby|1912}})
• Chicago White Sox ({{mlby|1912}}–{{mlby|1913}})
• Kansas City Packers ({{mlby|1914}}–{{mlby|1915}})

}}

Theodore Harrison Easterly (April 20, 1885 – July 6, 1951) was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Naps (1909–1912), Chicago White Sox (1912–1913) and Kansas City Packers (1914–1915). Easterly batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.

File:Ted Easterly.jpg, 1911.]]Easterly was a good contact hitter who batted over .300 four times. From {{mlby|1910}} to {{mlby|1912}}, he collected three consecutive .300 seasons with a high .324 in {{mlby|1911}} and led the American League with 11 pinch-hits in 1912. He jumped to the Federal League in 1914 and ended the season third in the batting race with a .335 average. A good defensive player with a solid throwing arm, he also served as a backup right fielder. In a seven-season career, Easterly was a .300 hitter with eight home runs and 261 RBI in 706 games played.

Easterly died in Clearlake Highlands, California, at the age of 66.