Career
He played for the New York Highlanders/Yankees, Chicago Cubs, and Chicago Whales. His key pitch was the spitball. He was born and raised in Bedford, Tennessee, the son of Neely South McConnell and Martha Jane Morton, married Elizabeth Pokorney (born 1895 in Illinois) and lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
They had three children, 1 boy and 2 girls, although Elizabeth"s age would imply that the first child (born abt 1909) may have been from an earlier marriage.
George McConnell is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga.