Clarke (Lefty) Metcalf

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Written By Karina Bueckert

  • BIRTHPLACE High Bluff, MB

  • INDUCTED 1999

 

Clarke Metcalf was born in High Bluff, Manitoba. Metcalf was a superb left-handed pitcher in the 1930s and ’40s. He was with the Winnipeg Maroons in 1937 and ’38, and he later hurled a one-hitter against Fargo. Metcalf’s catcher was usually Dick Mutcheson. He excelled as a tournament pitcher in Souris, Holland, Morden, Carman, Carberry, Virden, MacGregor, High Bluff, Polar Point, Gladstone, Neepawa, Plumas, Flin Flon, Wellwood Brandon, Portage, Walhalla, South Dakota, Duluth, and Minnesota.

Karina Bueckert
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