From 1913 Terriers Team Photo	George Carman Identity not confirmed Born: February 22, 1893 Died: February 5, 1951 Goto Baseball Reference for George Carman p Majors: No
	St. Louis Position: p Only game: June 1, 1913 # of games: 1	Left-handed pitcher who came into the game in relief in Chicago on June 1, 1913. Likely George Carman, a left-handed minor league pitcher from St. Louis.
	Harmon Goto Baseball Reference for Harmon p Majors: No
	St. Louis Position: p Only game: May 22, 1913 # of games: 1	Pitched in relief in one game in Indianapolis. One possibility is that this was a mis-identification of Carman.

George Carman

On June 1, 1913, Chief Rehmer started the game in Chicago. He gave up one run in the first, and then got pulled in the second, when Carmen was brought into the game. "In the middle of the round, O'Connor sent in Carmen to replace Reymer [sic] on the slab, but the grand opera southpaw was no improvememt on the poet hurler" (Chicago Tribune, June 2, 1913). Carmen walked the first batter he faced and gave up hits to the next three. He was then pulled and replaced by Collins.

The 1913 team photo of the St. Louis Federals, taken in late May, 1913, includes Carmen. This would have been roughly one week before his only appearance with the club in the game in Chicago. While the image is not clear, it looks like George Carman, a left-handed minor leaguer pitcher, pictured with the 1920 London club (1921 Reach Baseball Guide, pg. 387).

A few days prior to this photo being taken, a pitcher identified only as Harmon appeared in the box score for the Terriers in their March 22 game in Indianapolis. Harmon relieved Casey Smith (aka Brown) in the third inning of the game. Given Carmen's appearance in the team photo, it is reasonable to wonder if he was 'Harmon'. O'Connor was in St. Louis on May 20, and could have taken Carmen to Indianapolis with him.

Just over a month after Carmen's appearance in Chicago, the Belleville News-Democrat reported on a game between the Rettles and a team from Valley Park, MO. "Corman of the Valley Parks... is an ex-Federal League southpaw and had to do his very best to prevent the locals from hanging another scalp to their belts" (July 7, 1913, pg. 3). In 1915, Carmen appears in the box score pitching for Valley Park in a game against a club from Festus-Crystal City. Finally, in August, 1916, a player named Carmen is identified as playing for an All Star club of St. Louis minor leaguers (St. Louis Star and Times, August 21, 1916.

According to Baseball-Reference, George Carmen started his professional career in Muskogee (Oklahoma) in the Western Association in 1917. According to the Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat, Carmen came from the Kitty League in 1916 (May 6, 1917, pg 8). The newspapers from that summer identify him as pitching with Henderson (Kentucky), named at various times Carmin, Carmen or Carman. "Carmin, the star hurler of the Henderson team, leads the pitchers of the league with a percentage of .813, having won thirteen games and lost three" (Evansville Courier and Press, August 7, 1916). After the Kitty League shut down in early August, he was sold to Davenport in the Three-I League, where he pitched in just a couple of games. He was sent home after leaving his second start with a stomach ailment. "Manager O'Leary has sent Pitcher George Carmin to his home in Manchester, MO, because of illness that attacked him while the club was in Peoria" (Davenport Daily Times, August 26, 1916, pg. 10). The game in Peoria was a week or so prior, giving him time to be in St. Louis before the article of August 21 in the Star and Times. Despite being sent home, Carmen was reserved by Davenport for 1917. However, the club folded before the season started, and he wound up in Muskogee in 1917.

Following the 1917 season, Carmen vanishes from the baseball record until midway through the 1919 season. It is likely that he served in the military during the interim. In July of 1919, he signed with Oklahoma City, for whom he debuted on July 6 against Joplin (Daily Oklahoman, July 7, 1919, pg. 7). By the end of July he was with Sioux City, pitching and playing right field. In one of his early games with Sioux City, he threw out two runners at third base from his spot in right field (Sioux City Journal, July 25, 1919, pg. 15). He played in 11 games with Sioux City, compiling a 3-3 record, prior to deserting the club to join "the Independents" (Sioux City Journal, August 11, 1919, pg. 3) along with two other pitchers (Oswalt and Waldbauer). All three are listed as suspended on the Sioux City reserve list following the season; Carmen is identified as "G. T. Carmen" (Wichita Eagle, November 1, 1919, pg. 8).

In 1920, Carmen was signed by Buzz Wetzel to play for London (Ontario) in the Michigan-Ontario League. Wetzel played with and managed Muskogee in 1917. (He also managed Owensboro in the Kitty League in 1916.) On August 23, 1920, Carmen had a big day. He won his twenty-fifth game for London that day, and then he married Ruth Watson after the game (Brantford (Ontario) Expositor, August 24, 1920). London easily won the League Championship with a record of 86-32, well ahead of Hamilton in second place (71-46). Carmen finished the season with a 26-2 record and a 1.55 ERA in 33 games, striking out 121 and walking 54. He was sold to the Boston Red Sox as the season wound down.

Carmen attended camp at Hot Springs, Arkansas, with the Boston club in March 1921, but was "handicapped by a lame arm" and was returned to London at the end of the month (Boston Post, March 26, 1921). He pitched in the Michigan-Ontario League through 1925, compiling a 92-45 record there in six seasons, but none of his subsequent seasons matched his 1920 season, which saw him win at a .926 clip and get married.

It is through his wife, the former Miss Ruth Watson, that George Carman (note the spelling of the last name) can be identified. George W. Carman died on February 5, 1951, several days after suffering neck and face wounds caused by the discharge of a 16-gaugue shotgun. The wounds were self-inflicted. His obituary, published in the Battle Creek (Michigan) Enquirer on February 5, 1951, stated he was a former professional ball player (known as "Lefty") who played with clubs in the Michigan-Ontario and Three-I leagues. He worked as a painter for Post Cereals, and had celebrated twenty five years with the company just weeks prior to his death. The obituary also mentioned he was a veteran of World War I (explaining the gap in his professional record), and notes his marriage to Ruth Waston on August 23, 1920 in London, Ontario, that day long past when he won his twenty-fifth game of the season.

The date of birth reported in the obituary is February 22, 1893; his World War I registration lists 1892 as his birth year. (1893 is the year on his FindAGrave website.) He was either 20 or 21 in 1913, a young pitcher just trying to break into the professional ranks. And George Carman was born in Manchester, MO, just outside of St. Louis (and near Valley Park, Missouri), and still lived there as late as 1916. While there is no conclusive proof that George Carman pitched that inning in 1913, he was the right age and in the right place to have done so.