Hutchinson
Goto Baseball Reference for Hutchinson 		of-inf Majors:
No
St. Louis
Position: of-inf
First game: July 13, 1913
Last game: July 20, 1913
# of games: 6		 Possibly the alias for George Pennington.


Leavenworth Times,
April 15, 1906
George Pennington
Born: December 16, 1882
Died: December 29, 1956
Goto Baseball Reference for George Pennington 		ss Majors:
No
St. Louis
Position: ss
No games on record 		Possibly played as Hutchinson. The Sporting News reported he was playing with the St. Louis Federals under the name Hudson on July 17, 1913, and there were repeated reports that he played for the St. Louis Federals in 1913.


There is no record that George Pennington played for the St. Louis Terriers, yet he was suspended by the Central Association after the 1913 season for jumping to the Federal League, and it was widely reported in July 1913 that he was playing for St. Louis under the name Hudson. Pennington was a veteran minor leaguer from St. Louis, having first played professional baseball in 1903. In 1913, he started the season as the manager with Kewanee (IL) in the Central Association. He resigned from Kewanee in June and briefly joined Keokuk (IA) before signing with Muscatine (IA) (both also in the Central Association). He last played for Muscatine on July 2, and on July 3 he failed to show up for the scheduled game against Waterloo. The Muscatine Journal reported on July 4 reported that he had left the club for his home in Keokuk, saying he was ill and needed a rest. The same day, the Keokuk Daily Gate City reported that Pennington "has been sick for some time with malaria fever" (July 4, 1913, pg. 3). A few dys later the same paper reported "Pennington, it was said, came to Keokuk several days ago but if he did, he has kept pretty well covered up" (July 8, 1913, pg. 6). On July 10, the Waterloo (Iowa) Courier reported that he jumped a contract with Muscatine to join the Federal League. The Cedar Rapids Gazette noted "It has been the supposition all along that 'Lord' Pennington was a sick man... but it has been ascertained that Pennington was not so sick but that he could hurry off down to St. Louis and join the Federal league team there" (July 14, 1913, pg. 8). And on July 17, The Sporting News (published out of St. Louis) reported "George Pennington was cavorting around with the St. Louis Federal League team under the name Hudson" (July 17, 1913, pg. 2). He stopped appearing in news reports after that. Pennington was suspended by Muscatine, and reports continued into the next season that he had played for the Terriers.

The timing of his absence from the Central Association corresponds to the appearance of a player named Hutchinson with the Terriers. Hutchinson reported to manager O'Connor on July 4 (St. Louis Star, July 6 1913, pg. 13), and he made his first appearance in a game on July 13, in the second game of a double header in Kansas City. After Rehmer pinch ran for Gaston in the fourth inning of the game, Hutchinson came in to play right field while Tobin moved from right field to play center field in place of Gaston. (Rehmer ended up scoring in the fourth, and St. Louis won the game by a score of 5-4.) Hutchinson appeared in five more games over the next week. He started in center field on July 14 in Kansas City as Gaston sat. Two days later he substituted for Murphy at third base and got one at-bat in a 8-7 win in Indianapolis. On July 18 he pinch hit in the ninth. That was Jimmy Barton's last game, and Hutchinson started the next two games, in Indianapolis and Chicago, at shortstop. After former major leaguer Rabbit Robinson joined the club on July 21 and took over at short, Hutchinson was gone.