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=== Personal === | === Personal === | ||
* Resided in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1952. | * Resided in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1952. | ||
- | * Got his nickname "Tookie" when youngsters and his brothers let him take batting practice with them; they would call him "Rookie" but Harold pronounced it "Tookie". | + | * Got his nickname "Tookie" when youngsters and his brothers let him take batting practice with them; they would call him "Rookie" but Harold pronounced it "Tookie" and that is the story. |
=== Achievements === | === Achievements === | ||
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=== Contract signing === | === Contract signing === | ||
- | * Was signed by | + | * Was signed by Mel Ott, who is the manager of the 1952 Oakland Oaks, in 1946 for $50,000; at that time Mel Ott was a New York Giants scout. |
* Numerous clubs were after Tookie so his father, Lary Gilbert, Sr., co-owner of the Nashville team in the Southern Association, put the names in a hat and pulled out Ott's. | * Numerous clubs were after Tookie so his father, Lary Gilbert, Sr., co-owner of the Nashville team in the Southern Association, put the names in a hat and pulled out Ott's. | ||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
* {{cite-book | title=1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches}} | * {{cite-book | title=1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches}} |