Rudy York ✝

With one-eighth Cherokee ancestry and less-than-perfect fielding abilities, York prompted one sportswriter to declare: "He is part Indian and part first baseman".[citation needed]\n', ' York\'s family moved from Ragland, Alabama, to Aragon, Georgia, when Rudy was a small boy. Rudy\'s mother moved the family to the Cartersville, Georgia, area sometime in the late 1920s. They lived in the American Textile Company (ATCO) mill town on the outskirts of Cartersville, where Rudy began working in his early teens.\n', ' In his mid-teens, York played baseball with older men on the ATCO mill team and received local attention for his prowess at the plate. York became the team\'s star player from 1930 to 1933.[citation needed]\n', '