Harrison Wickel

Made a career out of baseball as a player, manager, scout and administrator. He played baseball and basketball at Reading High School before making the All-Big Ten team as a third baseman at Ohio State University. He spent nine years in the minor leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals, hitting .300 or more his first seven seasons. He also played for amateur teams in the Reading area. Wickel was a player-manager at most of his minor league stops. He signed George “Whitey” Kurowski, from Reading, for the Cardinals (1937) and managed Hall of Famer Stan Musial in the minors (1939). Beginning in 1947, he was a chief scout for the St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros. He was the farm director for the Chicago Cubs and general manager and president of
the Fort Worth team in the Texas League and the American Association.

Deceased