Nunamaker in his Boston Red Sox Uniform
Below is Les in his Cleveland Indaians uniform
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young Nunamaker in a DeBuque, IA uniform, Below in an Oxford Indians
uniform
Born: January 25, 1889 Malcom, NE
Died: November 14, 1938 Hastings, NE
Catcher 1911 - 1922
Boston (A) 1911-1914
New York (A) 1914-1917
St. Louis (A) 1918
Cleveland (A) 1919-1922
WORLD SERIES CHAMPION
1920
Les Nunamaker was born in Malcom, NE and raised in Aurora, NE. He began playing baseball with the Haskel Indians, also played with Lincoln, State League Team, Debugue, IA. Chicago Cubs before getting to the majors.. During the off-season aught Grover Cleveland Alexander while they were playing for the town team in St. Paul.
Beginning in 1911, Nunamaker caught for twelve years in the American league. After his major league career, he becam a player-manager for a number of minor league teams, including the Lincoln team in the Nebraska State League. He was working Hastings when he died in 1938.
He played on the 1920 World Champion Cleveland Indians Team. That year there were three Nebraska-born ball players in the famous Cleveland-Broklyn World Series. Les Nunamaker caught for the World Champion Indinas in that series. Brooklyn's Clarence Mitchell pitched, but Mitchell is most famous for hitting in to the unassisted triple play, with Otto Miller another Nebraskan) on first.
A special thanks to Fred Hummer of Lincoln and his mother for their contribution of materials and photo's to our new Nunamker display 6-24-02