William Denton "Dolly" Gray - Class of 2011

(Houghton)

A member of the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame, William "Dolly" Gray spent 1909-11 as a pitcher for the American League's Washington Nationals.  He was 15-51 with a 3.52 ERA and was the winning pitcher in the debut of Washington's Griffith Stadium in 1911.  He won 155 games and had 1,021 strikeouts in nine seasons in the PCL, regarded as the top minor league in professional baseball.  He pitched 19 complete games as a 30-year-old major league rookie in 1909.  He died in 1956.