Harry Courtney


Henry Seymour Courtney was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in the Major Leagues from - 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 game against a team from Clarksburg, West Virginia. However Clark Griffith, the owner of the baseball Senators, found out about 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.