Jim Upchurch

Upchurch was born 1928 in Illinois and started pitching professional baseball in 1947 with the Class D Pittsburg Browns of the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League.  He won ten games that season and wound up back in Kansas six years later to play for the Wichita Indians.

Upchurch won 11 games for the Indians in 1953, then appeared in only six games in 1954.

In 1955 and 1956, the left-hander helped the Boeing Bombers win back-to-back NBC National championship tournaments in 1954 and 1955 and the Global Championship in Milwaukee in 1955.

Upchurch died in 1996 at the age of 67.  He is buried in Park City.