In his first two years as a pitcher in the minor leagues, he led his teams to a regional pennant. He then played major-league baseball in 1909 with the Cleveland Naps before returning to the minors.\n', '

Sitton was born to Henry Philip and Amy Wilkinson Sitton in Pendleton, South Carolina on September 22, 1881, the second of five children. He was named after a renowned Charleston Presbyterian minister. Known on the sports pages as Carl or C. V., his family called him Vedder. Sitton\'s grandfather, John B. Sitton, built the first brick building in the town square of the Old Pendleton district; his father and an uncle, Augustus, fought for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Augustus was later prominent in the Red Shirt movement.\n', '

Sitton enrolled Clemson College in 1901, attending through 1903 but never graduating. He played football and baseball for coach John Heisman\'s Clemson Tigers.\n', '

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