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Forgotten Players from the 1969 Royals: Pat Kelly and Jackie Hernandez

Pat Kelly

Harold Patrick Kelly was the youngest of nine children born to Orvin and Argie Kelly. The Kelly’s, of Philadelphia, were devout Baptists who took the children to church and Sunday school each week. All the Kelly boys played football, basketball and baseball in high school. Harold, who went by Pat, enjoyed a 15-year career in major league baseball and he was not even the most famous athlete in his family. His older brother, Leroy Kelly, succeeded Jim Brown as the running back for the Cleveland Browns and enjoyed a ten-year Hall of Fame career.