Marv Peasley
# Marv Peasley

Marvin Warren Peasley (July 16, 1889 – December 27, 1948) was an American baseball left-handed pitcher.

Peasley was born in 1889 in Jonesport, Maine. He developed a reputation as a pitcher while playing for Riker Institute in Houlton, Maine. Peasley later pitched with "great success" for the Woodstock, New Brunswick, team during the summer of 1910.

Peasley played Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigersin September 1910, appearing in two games and compiling a 0-1 record with an earned run average of 8.10 in 10 innings pitched. There was some concern in 1911, that his career would end due to the increase of muscle mass to his arms from working with an axe during the previous winter, though would never again pitch in the majors.

Peasley later played for the Winnipeg Maroons in the Central International League in 1912.

Peaseley died in 1948, at age 59 in San Francisco.

