Harry Courtney

Who was Harry Courtney?

Henry Seymour Courtney, was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1919-1922 for the Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox.

He also played for the Washington Senators of the American Professional Football Association in 1921. That season signed with the football Senators for their November 20 against a team from Clarksburg, West Virginia. However Clark Griffith, the owner of the baseball Senators, found out about his Courtney moonlighting as a football player. Griffith ordered Courtney to stop playing football or risk finding himself without a job in baseball. Courtney gave up his football career and continued to focus only on baseball.

He was born in Asheville, North Carolina and died in Lyme, Connecticut.