Sam Dodge
Samuel Edward Dodge (December 19, 1889 – April 5, 1966) was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between 1921 and 1922 for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at , 170 lb, Dodge batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Neath, Pennsylvania, United States. Neath is a Welsh settlement and is now known only to locals as an area in the eastern district of Pike Township, Bradford County; it no longer appears on most maps. Dodge posted a 4.50 ERA with three strikeouts and 6.0 innings of work in four appearances. He did not have a  decision. During his mature life, he worked in the lumber camps of upstate New York. In about 1956, Dodge returned to the village of his birth, Neath, Pa. He lived for a winter at the Roy James farm south of Warren Center, working as a farm hand, helping in the saw mill and sleeping in the barn. The instance always reminds this writer - who was 12 years old at the time and also living at the James farm - of Robert Frost's "Death of the Hired Man." Dodge had one sister who may have lived in the Johnson City area . He returned north in New York State and died in Utica, New York, at the age of 76. But his body was returned to be interred at Neath. [wjh, 1/1/2009]