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Alabama Pitts
Edwin Collins "Alabama" Pitts, Jr. (November 22, 1909 – June 7, 1941) was an American convicted felon who garnered media attention in his attempt to play professional baseball after his release from Sing Sing prison. After being denied the ability to play for the Albany Senators of the International League in 1935 by the president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, he appealed to Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who withheld his appeal. Pitts went on to play for five years as a baseball player and two years as a football player, including one as a member of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles.
==Early years==
Pitts was born in Opelika, Alabama, to Edwin Pitts, Sr., a member of the cavalry, and Erma Mills Pitts. Edwin, Sr. died five months after his son's birth. Pitts' mother gave him the nickname "Alabama" to distinguish him from his father, who was born in Georgia. She was remarried to Robert E. Rudd, and the couple had a daughter, Pitts' half-sister, together. They divorced thereafter, and Pitts and his mother moved to Peoria, Illinois, where Erma became a telephone operator. After going to high school for a year, he enlisted in the Naval Academy at fifteen years old. He served for three years before he received an honorable discharge. After his military career, he wound up living in New York City, where he married in 1928. His mother left Illinois to be with her son in New York.
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