Harry Harper

Harry Clayton Harper (April 24, 1895 – April 23, 1963) was a right-handed pitcher from Hackensack, New Jersey, nicknamed "Hackensack Harry." He played in Major League Baseball from 1913 to 1923 with the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Brooklyn Robins. Harper started Game 6 of the 1922 World Series for the Yankees. After retiring from baseball, he pursued a business and political career, winning election as sheriff of Bergen County as a Republican and serving as Commissioner of Labor and Industry in the cabinets of New Jersey Governors Walter Evans Edge and Alfred E. Driscoll.