Coming in at #23 on the all-time WAR list, 35.0 is one William Park Kennedy. William came into this world on October 7, 1867, in Bellaire, Ohio. Today it is a town of less than 5,000 on the Ohio River and is considered part of the Wheeling, West Virginia, Metropolitan Statistical Area. In Kennedy’s day, Bellaire was known as “The Glass City,” but it lost that title in the late 1880s when natural gas was discovered in Findlay, Ohio. This drew the manufacturers west out of Bellaire. Bellaire did have a moment of fame recently, though. The toll bridge across the Ohio River, now closed and abandoned, appeared in the film “The Silence of the Lambs.
Player Profile: Brickyard Kennedy
