Corky Withrow was a high school and college basketball legend in Kentucky, but his professional sports career amounted to a handful of games with the 1963 St. Louis Cardinals. Withrow was a prodigious slugger and hit more than 200 homers in the minors. He died on April 22 at the age of 88.
RIP to Raymond "Corky" Withrow, a Hall of Fame basketball player in Kentucky and also a former major-league outfielder. He died on April 22 at the age of 88 in Owensboro, KY. Withrow appeared in 6 games with the 1963 St. Louis Cardinals as part of an 11-year professional baseball career. Raymond Wallace Withrow was born in West Virginia on November 28, 1937. His family-placed obituary lists his birthplace at Hico, but Baseball Reference indicates he was born in High Coal. Other documents Withrow filled out during his life, such as baseball questionnaires and draft cards, also list High Coal, but the city doesn't actually seem to exist anymore.
