Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Dec. 3, 1926: David Skeels, former ball player, is dead


SPOKANE - David Skeels, formerly a member of the Detroit American league and the Seattle northwestern league baseball teams, died yesterday at a tuberculosis sanitarium here, it was announced today.

Mr. Skeels, who was 34 years of age, began playing baseball while a student at Gonzaga University here, later playing with the Seattle club of the former Northwestern league, and from there going to the Detroit Tigers, where he remained for several seasons.

He is survived by his widow and four children at Addy, Wash., where he made his home recently.

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