Jimmy Austin, sportsman with a connection to Wales (Swansea)

Jimmy Austin

He became a major league baseball player for the New York Highlanders in 1909 at the age of twenty-eight. Two years later he was traded to the St. Louis Browns thus beginning a thirty year career with them as a player and coach.

Connection: He was born in Swansea 1879 and died in the USA 1965

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comment by:sarajay
He traveled to America in 1887 to join his father, a shipbuilder who had left Wales two years before.