Harry Wright
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William Henry "Harry" Wright was an American professional baseball player, manager, and developer. He assembled, managed, and played center field for baseball's first fully professional team, the 1869
Harry Wright Baseball Card
Wright in 1872
Harry Wright
Wright's plaque at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Veterans Committee
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The Veterans Committee is the popular name of various committees of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum that elect participants other than recently retired players.
Harry Wright
…on hitters' tendencies. For his contributions as a manager and developer of the game, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953 by the Veterans Committee. Wright was the first to make baseball into a business by paying his players up to seven times the pay of the average working man. He is the oldest…
Bill Mazeroski was elected by the Veterans Committee in 2001.
Shirley Povich as master of ceremonies at Cooperstown, 1955
Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick in 1962