{{short description|American baseball player}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Spoke Emery |position=Outfielder |image= |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1896|12|10}} |birth_place=Bay City, Michigan, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1975|6|2|1896|12|10}} |death_place=Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=July 18 |debutyear=1924 |debutteam= Philadelphia Phillies |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=July 26 |finalyear=1924 |finalteam= Philadelphia Phillies |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat1value=.667 |stat2label=Home runs |stat2value=0 |stat3label=Runs batted in |stat3value=0 |teams= * Philadelphia Phillies ({{by|1924}}) }} '''Herrick Smith "Spoke" Emery''' (December 10, 1898 – June 2, 1975) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder.
Born in Bay City, Michigan, Spoke played one season in Major League Baseball, in {{by|1924}} with the Philadelphia Phillies. He played five games in the major leagues, with two career hits in three at-bats. After the end of his brief career in the majors, he remained active in the minor leagues, as a player-manager. Emery played for and managed the Class D Cotton States League's Meridian Mets from 1926 until the middle of 1927. He also played and managed for the Class D Mississippi Valley League's Cedar Rapids Bunnies in 1927 and 1928, then moved on to the Class D Eastern Carolina League's Goldsboro Goldbugs in 1929, playing and managing there as well. This marked the end of Emery's playing career, but he remained active as a manager for one more season, spending 1930 as the skipper of the Class C Ontario League's Brantford Red Sox.
Emery died on June 2, 1975, in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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