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'''Charles Francis Berry''' ([[October 18]] [[1902]] - [[September 6]] [[1972]]) was an [[United States|American]] athlete and sports official who enjoyed careers as a [[catcher]] and [[umpire (baseball)|umpire]] in [[Major League Baseball]] and as an [[end (football)|offensive end]] and [[official (American football)|official]] in the [[National Football League]]. His father, [[Charlie Berry (19th century baseball player)|Charlie Sr.]], was a [[second baseman]] who played in the [[Union Association]] in [[1884 in baseball|1884]].
{{other people||Charles Berry (disambiguation)}}
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'''Charles Francis Berry''' (October 18, 1902 – September 6, 1972) was an American athlete and sports official who enjoyed careers as a [[catcher]] and [[Umpire (baseball)|umpire]] in [[Major League Baseball]] and as an [[End (gridiron football)|end]] and [[Official (American football)|official]] in the [[National Football League]]. His father, [[Charlie Berry (second baseman)|Charlie Sr.]], was a [[second baseman]] who played in the [[Union Association]] in [[1884 in baseball|1884]].


==Career==
==Career==
Born in [[Phillipsburg, New Jersey]], Berry attended [[Phillipsburg High School (New Jersey)|Phillipsburg High School]]<ref>Noto, Anthony. [https://www.mcall.com/1994/04/24/phillipsburg-in-the-big-league-white-sox-visit-memorable/ "Phillipsburg In The Big League? White Sox Visit Memorable"], ''[[The Morning Call]]'', April 24, 1994. Accessed March 14, 2011. "Undoubtedly, the person most instrumental in persuading the White Sox to make the trek to Phillipsburg was native son Charlie Berry, who earlier that season had been traded to the White Sox by the Boston Red Sox."</ref><ref>[http://www.mcall.com/sports/highschool/eastonpburg/all-jacks-facts,0,6183907.htmlstory "Jack's Facts: A Closer Look at the Easton/Phillipsburg Rivalry"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622083315/http://www.mcall.com/sports/highschool/eastonpburg/all-jacks-facts,0,6183907.htmlstory |date=2008-06-22 }}, ''[[The Morning Call]]'', November 21, 2006, accessed April 13, 2007. "The Garnet's Charlie Berry would score all Phillipsburg's points in a 14–7 win. Berry after graduating from PHS went on to have an outstanding career at Lafayette College and later became an American League baseball umpire and officiated in the NFL."</ref> and ultimately accomplished the rare feat of officiating in both the [[List of NFL champions|NFL Championship Game]] and the [[World Series]] in the same year.
Born in [[Phillipsburg, New Jersey]], Berry accomplished the rare feat of officiating in both the NFL and in the [[World Series]]. While in college as a star on the [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] team, he was named to the final [[Walter Camp]] [[All-America]] football team as an end in 1924. In 1925-26 he starred for the [[Pottsville Maroons]] of the NFL, leading the league in scoring in [[1925 NFL season|1925]] with 74 points.


===Football===
Berry started his major league career with ten games for the [[Oakland Athletics|Philadelphia Athletics]] in [[1925 in baseball|1925]], but didn't return to the majors until after his football career ended, playing for Portland and Dallas minor league teams in 1926-27. He also played for the [[Boston Red Sox]] (1928-32), [[Chicago White Sox]] (1932-33) and again with the Athletics (1934-36). He became an Athletics coach under manager [[Connie Mack (baseball)|Connie Mack]] from 1936 to 1940, making his last playing appearance in [[1938 in baseball|1938]]. A right-handed hitter, he posted a .267 [[batting average]] with 23 [[home run]]s and 256 [[run batted in|runs batted in]] in 709 major league games. At Mack's suggestion, he managed the Wilmington Blue Rocks (of which Mack was vice president) for the last half of the 1940 season, finishing second in the [[Interstate League]], but was discouraged by Mack from pursuing his goal of a managing career due to the high turnover rate in the profession. In addition to his brief managing career, Berry was the football coach at [[Grove City College]] for five seasons in the 1930s.
While in college as a star on the [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] team, he was named to the final [[Walter Camp]] [[All-America]] football team as an end in 1924. In 1925–26, he starred for the [[Pottsville Maroons]] of the NFL, leading the league in scoring in [[1925 NFL season|1925]] with 74 points. During the [[1925 NFL season]], the Maroons played a game against the top [[college football]] team, a group of All-Stars from the [[University of Notre Dame]]. This team featured the famed [[Four Horsemen (football)|Four Horsemen]] as was seen as the best team in the country. At the time, college football was seen as consisting of superior talent over the professionals. The hard-fought contest was decided in the last minute of the game. Down a point, Berry kicked a 30-yard field goal to upset college's best team 9–7.<ref>[http://www.explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1012 Pottsville Maroons Historical Marker]</ref> The Maroons' victory over the Irish ensured that the NFL now had the credibility to exist on equal standing with college football. Unfortunately, the game resulted in the Maroons [[1925 NFL Championship controversy|being stripped of their NFL title due to a disputed rules violation]].


===Baseball===
Following his playing and coaching career, Berry became an umpire in the [[American League]] from 1942 through 1962. He officiated in five [[World Series]] ([[1946 World Series|1946]], [[1950 World Series|1950]], [[1954 World Series|1954]], [[1958 World Series|1958]], [[1962 World Series|1962]]) and five [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Games]] (1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, second 1959 game), calling balls and strikes for the first half of the 1948 and 1956 games. He was the third base umpire for the one-game playoff to decide the [[1948 in baseball|1948]] AL pennant, and after becoming a league umpiring supervisor returned to the field for the first game of the [[1970 American League Championship Series]] during an umpires' strike, working the outfield. On [[July 1]], [[1951 in baseball|1951]] he was behind the plate when [[Bob Feller]] became the first pitcher to throw three [[no-hitter]]s in the AL; Berry later worked the bases for four more no-hitters. At the same time, he was a [[official (American football)#Head Linesman|head linesman]] for the NFL for 24 seasons, officiating in 12 championship games including the renowned [[NFL Championship Game, 1958|"Sudden Death" championship game]] between the [[Indianapolis Colts|Baltimore Colts]] and [[New York Giants]] in [[1958 NFL season|1958]]. In fact, he is the only man to have officiated the World Series, the NFL Championship and the College All-Star game in one year.
[[File:CharlieBerryGoudeycard.jpg|170px|left|thumb|A 1933 Goudey trading card of Berry]]
Berry started his major league career with ten games for the [[Philadelphia Athletics]] in {{Baseball year|1925}} but didn't return to the majors until after his football career ended, playing for Portland and Dallas minor league teams in 1926–27. He also played for the [[Boston Red Sox]] (1928–32), [[Chicago White Sox]] (1932–33) and again with the Athletics (1934–36). He became an Athletics coach under manager [[Connie Mack]] from 1936 to 1940, making his last playing appearance in {{Baseball year|1938}}. A right-handed hitter, he posted a .267 [[batting average (baseball)|batting average]] with 23 [[home run]]s and 256 [[run batted in|runs batted in]] in 709 major league games. At Mack's suggestion, he managed the [[Wilmington Blue Rocks]] (of which Mack was vice president) for the last half of the 1940 season, finishing second in the [[Interstate League]], but was discouraged by Mack from pursuing his goal of a managing career due to the high turnover rate in the profession. In addition to his brief managerial career, Berry was the football coach at [[Grove City College]] for five seasons in the 1930s.<ref name=obit>{{cite news|title=Obituaries|work=[[The Sporting News]]|date=1972-09-23|page=62}}</ref>


===Official===
He credited his success as an official to his attention to the rules, noting, "Every morning, right after I got up, I would open the rule book and read. I'd open the book at random and start reading a few pages. I did the same thing when I was in the NFL." While admitting his own general ignorance of the rules when he had been playing, he added, "All during my umpiring and officiating career I was astounded by the number of players who had only a casual acquaintance with the rules. And it caused a lot of needless trouble on the field."<ref>{{cite news | title=Obituaries | publisher=[[The Sporting News]] | date=September 23, 1972}}</ref>
Following his playing and coaching career, Berry became an umpire in the [[American League]] from 1942 through 1962. He officiated in five World Series ([[1946 World Series|1946]], [[1950 World Series|1950]], [[1954 World Series|1954]], [[1958 World Series|1958]], [[1962 World Series|1962]]) and five [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Games]] (1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, second [[1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)|1959]] game), calling balls and strikes for the first half of the 1948 and 1956 games. He was the third base umpire for the one-game playoff to decide the {{Baseball year|1948}} AL pennant, and after becoming a league umpiring supervisor, he returned to the field for the first game of the [[1970 American League Championship Series]] during an umpires' strike, working the outfield. On July 1, 1951, he was behind the plate when [[Bob Feller]] became the first pitcher to throw three [[the no-hitter]]s in the AL; Berry later worked the bases for four more no-hitters. At the same time, he was a [[official (American football)#Head linesman|head linesman]] for the NFL for 24 seasons, officiating in 12 championship games, including the renowned [[1958 NFL Championship Game|"Sudden Death" championship game]] between the [[Baltimore Colts]] and [[New York Giants]] in [[1958 NFL season|1958]]. In fact, he is the only man to have officiated the World Series, the NFL Championship and the College All-Star game in one year.


He credited his success as an official to his attention to the rules, noting, "Every morning, right after I got up, I would open the rule book and read. I'd open the book at random and start reading a few pages. I did the same thing when I was in the NFL." While admitting his own general ignorance of the rules when he had been playing, he added, "All during my umpiring and officiating career I was astounded by the number of players who had only a casual acquaintance with the rules. And it caused a lot of needless trouble on the field."<ref name=obit/>
After retiring from umpiring in 1962, Berry also worked as an observer of NFL officials. He died of a heart attack in [[Evanston, Illinois]] at the age of 69, after suffering a [[stroke]] three months earlier. He was inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] in [[1980 in sports|1980]].


[[Bill Haller]], who worked as an AL umpire from 1961 to 1982, recalled that Berry was his boyhood hero and inspiration to pursue umpiring, even though growing up in [[Lockport, Illinois]] he never met him in his youth: "Berry went to school with the father of my best friend, [[Jack Ernst]]. I was about 11 years old and I heard so much from Mr. Ernst about Berry. I used to umpire the kid games around the neighborhood and later on I umpired the semi-pro games around Lockport."<ref>{{cite news|first=Regis|last=McAuley|title=Man-in-Blue Haller Had Boyhood Hero: Ump Charlie Berry|work=The Sporting News|date=April 18, 1964|page=53}}</ref>
==Trivia==

*Berry is well remembered for a collision with [[Babe Ruth]] which sent the slugger flying into the air. In 1931, during a game between the [[New York Yankees]] and the Red Sox, Ruth collided with Berry at [[home plate]] while trying to score on a [[sacrifice fly]]. Ruth was carried off the field at [[Fenway Park]] and taken to a hospital, and missed two weeks of play.
After retiring from umpiring in 1962, Berry also worked as an observer of NFL officials. He died of a heart attack at his son-in-law's home in [[Evanston, Illinois]] at the age of 69, after suffering a [[stroke]] three months earlier.<ref name=obit/> He was interred in [[Belvidere Cemetery]] in [[Belvidere, New Jersey]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lee |first=Bill |date=2015-07-11 |title=The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oEwCgAAQBAJ&q=Belvidere%2520Cemetery%2520charlie%2520berry&pg=PA31 |access-date=2024-02-17|via=Google Books |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0930-0 |language=en}}</ref>

He was inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] in 1980.

==Head coaching record==
===College football===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = [[Grove City Wolverines football|Grove City Crimson/Wolverines]]
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1927
| endyear = 1931
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1930 college football season|1930]]
| name = Grove City
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1931 college football season|1931]]
| name = Grove City
| overall = 5–1–2
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Grove City
| overall = 28–7–8
| confrecord =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 28–7–8
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Not stated--> |title=Football Year-by-Year Records |url=https://athletics.gcc.edu/sports/2016/9/6/football-year-by-year-records.aspx |publisher=[[Grove City College]] |access-date=February 13, 2024 }}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Boston Red Sox all-time roster]]
* [[Boston Red Sox all-time roster]]
*[[Chicago White Sox all-time roster]]
* [[Chicago White Sox all-time roster]]
*[[History of the New York Giants]]
* [[History of the New York Giants]]
* [[List of second-generation Major League Baseball players]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
{{Commons}}
*{{baseball-reference|id=b/berrych02}}
* {{College Football HoF|1357}}
*[http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/B/Berry_Charlie.stm BaseballLibrary]
* {{Baseballstats|br=b/berrych02|espn=19156}}
*[http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=20018 College Football Hall of Fame]
* {{Footballstats |nfl=charlie-berry |espn= |cbs= |yahoo= |si= |pfr=B/BerrCh20 |rotoworld= }}
*[http://members.tripod.com/bb_catchers/catchers/umpires.htm Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers]
*[http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pberrc103.htm Retrosheet]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pberrc103.htm Retrosheet]
* {{Find a Grave}}
*[http://thedeadballera.com/Obits/Berry.CharlesJr.Obit.html The Deadball Era] - ''New York Times'' obituary


{{Grove City Wolverines football coach navbox}}
==References==
{{1921 Lafayette football navbox}}
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{{1925 Pottsville Maroons}}


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Latest revision as of 17:48, 29 November 2024

This article is about the athlete. For the cartoon character, see The Beary Family.
For other people with the same name, see Charles Berry (disambiguation).

Charlie Berry
Berry in 1932
Catcher
Born: (1902-10-18)October 18, 1902
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: September 6, 1972(1972-09-06) (aged 69)
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 15, 1925, for the Philadelphia Athletics
Last MLB appearance
September 8, 1938, for the Philadelphia Athletics
MLB statistics
Batting average.267
Home runs23
Runs batted in256
Stats at Baseball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Teams
American football career
No. 17, 20[1]
Position:End
Personal information
Height:6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
College:Lafayette
Career history
Career highlights and awards
College Football Hall of Fame

Charles Francis Berry (October 18, 1902 – September 6, 1972) was an American athlete and sports official who enjoyed careers as a catcher and umpire in Major League Baseball and as an end and official in the National Football League. His father, Charlie Sr., was a second baseman who played in the Union Association in 1884.

Career

[edit]

Born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Berry attended Phillipsburg High School[2][3] and ultimately accomplished the rare feat of officiating in both the NFL Championship Game and the World Series in the same year.

Football

[edit]

While in college as a star on the Lafayette team, he was named to the final Walter Camp All-America football team as an end in 1924. In 1925–26, he starred for the Pottsville Maroons of the NFL, leading the league in scoring in 1925 with 74 points. During the 1925 NFL season, the Maroons played a game against the top college football team, a group of All-Stars from the University of Notre Dame. This team featured the famed Four Horsemen as was seen as the best team in the country. At the time, college football was seen as consisting of superior talent over the professionals. The hard-fought contest was decided in the last minute of the game. Down a point, Berry kicked a 30-yard field goal to upset college's best team 9–7.[4] The Maroons' victory over the Irish ensured that the NFL now had the credibility to exist on equal standing with college football. Unfortunately, the game resulted in the Maroons being stripped of their NFL title due to a disputed rules violation.

Baseball

[edit]
A 1933 Goudey trading card of Berry

Berry started his major league career with ten games for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1925 but didn't return to the majors until after his football career ended, playing for Portland and Dallas minor league teams in 1926–27. He also played for the Boston Red Sox (1928–32), Chicago White Sox (1932–33) and again with the Athletics (1934–36). He became an Athletics coach under manager Connie Mack from 1936 to 1940, making his last playing appearance in 1938. A right-handed hitter, he posted a .267 batting average with 23 home runs and 256 runs batted in in 709 major league games. At Mack's suggestion, he managed the Wilmington Blue Rocks (of which Mack was vice president) for the last half of the 1940 season, finishing second in the Interstate League, but was discouraged by Mack from pursuing his goal of a managing career due to the high turnover rate in the profession. In addition to his brief managerial career, Berry was the football coach at Grove City College for five seasons in the 1930s.[5]

Official

[edit]

Following his playing and coaching career, Berry became an umpire in the American League from 1942 through 1962. He officiated in five World Series (1946, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962) and five All-Star Games (1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, second 1959 game), calling balls and strikes for the first half of the 1948 and 1956 games. He was the third base umpire for the one-game playoff to decide the 1948 AL pennant, and after becoming a league umpiring supervisor, he returned to the field for the first game of the 1970 American League Championship Series during an umpires' strike, working the outfield. On July 1, 1951, he was behind the plate when Bob Feller became the first pitcher to throw three the no-hitters in the AL; Berry later worked the bases for four more no-hitters. At the same time, he was a head linesman for the NFL for 24 seasons, officiating in 12 championship games, including the renowned "Sudden Death" championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants in 1958. In fact, he is the only man to have officiated the World Series, the NFL Championship and the College All-Star game in one year.

He credited his success as an official to his attention to the rules, noting, "Every morning, right after I got up, I would open the rule book and read. I'd open the book at random and start reading a few pages. I did the same thing when I was in the NFL." While admitting his own general ignorance of the rules when he had been playing, he added, "All during my umpiring and officiating career I was astounded by the number of players who had only a casual acquaintance with the rules. And it caused a lot of needless trouble on the field."[5]

Bill Haller, who worked as an AL umpire from 1961 to 1982, recalled that Berry was his boyhood hero and inspiration to pursue umpiring, even though growing up in Lockport, Illinois he never met him in his youth: "Berry went to school with the father of my best friend, Jack Ernst. I was about 11 years old and I heard so much from Mr. Ernst about Berry. I used to umpire the kid games around the neighborhood and later on I umpired the semi-pro games around Lockport."[6]

After retiring from umpiring in 1962, Berry also worked as an observer of NFL officials. He died of a heart attack at his son-in-law's home in Evanston, Illinois at the age of 69, after suffering a stroke three months earlier.[5] He was interred in Belvidere Cemetery in Belvidere, New Jersey.[7]

He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980.

Head coaching record

[edit]

College football

[edit]
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Grove City Crimson/Wolverines (Independent) (1927–1931)
1927 Grove City 5–2–1
1928 Grove City 4–1–3
1929 Grove City 6–1–2
1930 Grove City 7–2
1931 Grove City 5–1–2
Grove City: 28–7–8
Total: 28–7–8

[8]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Ongoing Research Project: Pottsville Maroons/Boston Bulldogs
  2. ^ Noto, Anthony. "Phillipsburg In The Big League? White Sox Visit Memorable", The Morning Call, April 24, 1994. Accessed March 14, 2011. "Undoubtedly, the person most instrumental in persuading the White Sox to make the trek to Phillipsburg was native son Charlie Berry, who earlier that season had been traded to the White Sox by the Boston Red Sox."
  3. ^ "Jack's Facts: A Closer Look at the Easton/Phillipsburg Rivalry" Archived 2008-06-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Morning Call, November 21, 2006, accessed April 13, 2007. "The Garnet's Charlie Berry would score all Phillipsburg's points in a 14–7 win. Berry after graduating from PHS went on to have an outstanding career at Lafayette College and later became an American League baseball umpire and officiated in the NFL."
  4. ^ Pottsville Maroons Historical Marker
  5. ^ a b c "Obituaries". The Sporting News. September 23, 1972. p. 62.
  6. ^ McAuley, Regis (April 18, 1964). "Man-in-Blue Haller Had Boyhood Hero: Ump Charlie Berry". The Sporting News. p. 53.
  7. ^ Lee, Bill (July 11, 2015). The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0930-0. Retrieved February 17, 2024 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "Football Year-by-Year Records". Grove City College. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
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