Merrill gained early baseball fame with a no-hit pitching performance for Barnstable Mass in the Cape Cod league. Signed by the Cleveland Indians, he had a 15-7 record with the New Orleans Pelicans in 1938 and a 16-7 mark with Wilkes-Barre PA of the Eastern league in '39. He pitched for Macon GA in the Sally League in 1940 but his career was cut short by a shoulder injury and World War II. He returned to Augusta to become Cony High Schools biggest booster and hardest working volunteer worker for more than 35 years.
Maine Sunday Telegram October 1977
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