Major league baseball player during the 1931 season. He pitched for the Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers.
There is confusion about the spelling of his first name in that it is spelled 'Laurence' on his grave marker and at FamilySearch. But he was known to his family as 'Lawrence' and there is a family member born in 1925 who was his namesake. However, his birth record in the Maryland Archives shows his name as Laurence Earl Mattingly.
He appears on the 1910 and 1950 MD Census reports as Lawrence E. Mattingly. On the 1920-1940 Census reports, his name is shown as Earl Mattingly. His first name is spelled as 'Lawrence' on his WWII Draft Card but he signed the card as 'Laurence'.
Went by his middle name and is known in baseball as 'Earl Mattingly': https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mattiea01.shtml
There is confusion about the spelling of his first name in that it is spelled 'Laurence' on his grave marker and at FamilySearch. But he was known to his family as 'Lawrence' and there is a family member born in 1925 who was his namesake. However, his birth record in the Maryland Archives shows his name as Laurence Earl Mattingly.
He appears on the 1910 and 1950 MD Census reports as Lawrence E. Mattingly. On the 1920-1940 Census reports, his name is shown as Earl Mattingly. His first name is spelled as 'Lawrence' on his WWII Draft Card but he signed the card as 'Laurence'.
Went by his middle name and is known in baseball as 'Earl Mattingly': https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mattiea01.shtml
Major league baseball player during the 1931 season. He pitched for the Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers.
There is confusion about the spelling of his first name in that it is spelled 'Laurence' on his grave marker and at FamilySearch. But he was known to his family as 'Lawrence' and there is a family member born in 1925 who was his namesake. However, his birth record in the Maryland Archives shows his name as Laurence Earl Mattingly.
He appears on the 1910 and 1950 MD Census reports as Lawrence E. Mattingly. On the 1920-1940 Census reports, his name is shown as Earl Mattingly. His first name is spelled as 'Lawrence' on his WWII Draft Card but he signed the card as 'Laurence'.
Went by his middle name and is known in baseball as 'Earl Mattingly': https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mattiea01.shtml
There is confusion about the spelling of his first name in that it is spelled 'Laurence' on his grave marker and at FamilySearch. But he was known to his family as 'Lawrence' and there is a family member born in 1925 who was his namesake. However, his birth record in the Maryland Archives shows his name as Laurence Earl Mattingly.
He appears on the 1910 and 1950 MD Census reports as Lawrence E. Mattingly. On the 1920-1940 Census reports, his name is shown as Earl Mattingly. His first name is spelled as 'Lawrence' on his WWII Draft Card but he signed the card as 'Laurence'.
Went by his middle name and is known in baseball as 'Earl Mattingly': https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mattiea01.shtml
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