The Memphis Chicks were a Minor League Baseball team that played in the Southern Association from 1901 to 1960. They were located in Memphis, Tennessee, and played their home games at Russwood Park. Known originally as the Memphis Egyptians and Memphis Turtles before becoming the Memphis Chickasaws, often shortened to Chicks, they were charter members of the Southern Association.
The 1921 Southern Association champion Memphis Chicks
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Peter James Gray was an American professional baseball outfielder who played for the St. Louis Browns of Major League Baseball for one season in 1945. He was notable for playing despite having lost his right arm in a childhood accident.
Gray (right) with his father Peter Wyshner (left) and mother Antoinette Wyshner (center) at Yankee Stadium during the 1945 baseball season.
Gray during his tenure with the Memphis Chicks, circa 1944.
Gray (far right) demonstrates his technique for catching a baseball with one arm for United States armed forces amputees at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.