Education
Brown University.
Brown University.
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he played the major leagues for the Washington Senators (1926-1931 and 1935), Chicago White Sox (1932), Saint Louis Browns (1932-1934), New York Yankees (1936-1940), New York Giants (1941), and Philadelphia Athletics (1941). He was on three world championship teams with the Yankees (1936, 1937 and 1939). On September 3, 1928, Hadley gave up the last of Ty Cobb"s then-Major League record 4,191 career hits.
On May 25, 1937, Hadley, upset by a home run in a previous at bat, threw the pitch which hit Mickey Cochrane in the head
The resulting injury nearly killed Cochrane, and ended his playing career. After retiring, Hadley began doing a sports show for WBZ radio in the mid-1940s.
He served as a radio and television announcer for the Boston Red Sox and Boston Braves in the late 1940s and early "50s, assisting Jim Britt. An alumnus of Brown University, he died in his hometown at the age of 58.