Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Harvey Alfred Branch (born February 8, 1939, at Memphis, Tennessee) is a retired American professional baseball player. He was a left-handed pitcher who had a seven-year career in minor league baseball, but whose Major League tenure consisted of a single game in the uniform of the St. Louis Cardinals on September 18, 1962. Branch attended Alabama State University, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 170 pounds (77 kg). He originally signed with the Chicago Cubs in 1958 and spent five years in their minor league system.