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- | == Profile ==
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- | === Personal ===
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- | * Resided in Detroit, Michigan in 1955.
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- | * Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry.
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- | * Listed hobby as golf.
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- | * Single in 1955.
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- | * Baseball ambition was "money" in 1955.
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- | === Pre-professional career ===
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- | * Graduated from Denby High School in 1952.
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- | * Played baseball in high school.
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- | * Played American Legion ball in Detroit.
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- | === Achievements ===
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- | * Led the 1952 Coastal Plain League shortstops in putouts with 210.
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- | === Outside of baseball ===
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- | * Was a mambo dance instructor dduring the off-season.
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- | * Served two years in the U.S. Army.
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- | === Contract signing ===
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- | * Was signed to his first contract by Lou D'Annunzio of the Detroit Tigers.
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- | == Sources ==
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- | * {{cite-book | title=1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition)}}
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