Roy Parmalee of Lambertville won the World Series, managed the AAA office

Recently, I wrote about Ortha E. Smith Parmelee who led the local campaign in the 1940s to “Save the Lotus” and was one of the founding members of the Lotus Garden Club in 1951, serving as its president. The widow of pro baseball player Le Roy “Bud” Earl Parmelee, Ortha was born October 7, 1907, at the family home on Smith Road in Bedford Township, the daughter of Frederick T. and Anna (Scharer) Smith.

Lambertville native Roy Parmelee, pictured in 1933, helped the New York Giants win baseball's 1933 World Series in five games.  He played in the majors from the late 1920s to 1941. He later ran the AAA office in Monroe until 1971.

Roy Parmelee is the subject of this article. He was born on April 25, 1907, in Lambertville to Dr. Olin Parmelee and the former Edith Kinney – as described by Warren Corbett, research fellow of the Society for American Baseball Research and a trade publication editor in Washington, DC Roy Parmelee also graduated in 1925 from Lambertville High School where he was a classmate of Ortho. His desire to become a doctor like his father quickly disappeared, and he went to Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) and ended up in Toledo working a factory job and playing baseball on the side. There he caught the eye of famous baseball player and baseball coach Casey Stengel, who was in charge of the semi-pro Toledo Mud Hens at the time.