Birth date: Sep 29, 1942 Death date: Mar 19, 2020
Fred Nelson Neely, 77, passed away March 19, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. He was born September 29, 1942 to parents Joe Neely and Virginia Neely in Nederland, Texas. Read Obituary
Fred and I were teammates as teenagers in Babe Ruth League. I was having a terrible slump at bat and hadn’t had a hit in a while. Finally I came up and got a solid hit up the middle. I was so happy and looked into our dugout. Fred was standing over a teammate who was pretending to have fainted and was fanning him with a towel and shouted “Look what you’ve done to him”.
Fred and I were on the same baseball team in Babe Ruth League in Nederland. He was an outstanding pitcher and I was average. He was kidding me and said “Goodwin, you throw so much junk they take you out to the mound in a garbage truck”.
