Barry Baseball Team 1902
Contributed by Margaret Rutledge
Managed by her grandfather Brett Watson

Names and Positions as can be made out: (Photo taken in Hannibal MO)
Back Row, Moiman, center; Yancy, 1st base; Watson (my grandfather) manager; Ware, substitute pitcher;
Middle Row: McDaniel, center fielder; Jeffries, pitcher; Berry, right fielder;
Front Row: Cosgrove, 3rd base; Mason, short stop; Fitzpatrick, 2nd base; Hurt, left field; L. Hurt, substitute center

"Brett Bonnell Watson was born 25 December 1881 and died 22 November 1969. He was born, raised and spent his entire life in Barry IL. Brett Watson married Bess Mona Palmer, a Texas girl whose grandparents lived in Barry. She would spend summers with them, and after she graduated from high school in Texas, she attended a year at the Barry HS to take classes she couldn't take in Texas, like botany"