1931

Pat Creeden was born on May 23, 1906, in Newburyport, Mass. He had led the Brockton High varsity football team to an undefeated season in 1924, and was also named an All-New England guard in basketball that same year. 

Pat came to the Red Sox almost directly, but not quite, from Boston College. He was active on the football team, making his mark right from his first year.  In his junior year helped lead the Eagles to an undefeated season and by senior year in 1929, became captain of the B. C. eleven.

He was also the star second baseman for the Eagles, playing right up to his graduation in June 1930. After graduation, he returned once more to the Cape Cod League where he had played summer baseball since at least 1927, playing his last Cape season for Hyannis. After graduation he played a summer in the minor leagues before becoming injured.

In the fall of 1930 he coached freshman football for Fordham College. The Red Sox announced his signing on December. Pat made the team out of spring training and was assigned #8 to wear on his jersey. 1931 was the first year the Red Sox wore numerals on their uniforms. 

Five games with the Boston Red Sox with 13 chances in the field, committing two errors. That was Pat’s career, as 1932 was his last year in professional baseball.

Throughout his later years he coached high school, Triple-A, and semipro football and baseball teams and played with the Williamsport team of the Penn-New York State League.

In the Second World War, he enlisted in the United States Navy serving from September 1942 until March 1946, instructing physical education classes as well as seeing some active duty.

His employment until his retirement in 1972 was with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Youth Services in the Department of Education. He served as the superintendent of John Augustus Hall in Oakdale, a residential treatment unit.