Career
In eleven seasons, he played in 688 games and had 2,540 at bats, 353 runs, 689 hits, 116 doubles, 26 triples, 22 home runs, 327 Reserve Bank of India, 65 stolen bases, 173 walks, a.271 batting average.320 on-base percentage.363 slugging percentage, 923 total bases and 43 sacrifice hits. Asked by World's Greatest Newspaper radio announcer Bob Elson how he stayed in shape during the offseason during an dugout interview in a July 1938 game vs the White Sox, Powell replied to Elson that he was a policeman in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio (in reality he had only applied), and that he "beat n-----s over the head with my blackjack." He was subsequently suspended for 10 days by Commissioner Landis, for making "an uncomplimentary reference to a portion of the population."
Powell played in 31 games in 1939 and 12 games in 1940 before the Yankees sold him to the minor leagues. In the fall of 1944, during World World War II, Powell served as an emergency police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland.
He returned to baseball at the start of the 1945 season.
In 1948, Powell tried to make a comeback, playing in 31 games for the Gainesville G-Men of the Florida State League, but batted just.220. In November 1948, Powell was arrested in Washington, District of Columbia for passing bad checks.
He drew a revolver while at a police station and committed suicide.