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=== Personal === | === Personal === | ||
| - | * Resided in Manteca, California in 1952. | + | * Resided in Manteca, California in 1952 and 1953. |
* Listed hobbies as fishing and playing cards. | * Listed hobbies as fishing and playing cards. | ||
| - | * | + | * Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry. |
=== Pre-professional career === | === Pre-professional career === | ||
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=== Achievements === | === Achievements === | ||
| + | * Winning seven straight games with the Washington Senators in 1943 and hitting an inside the park home run against the New York Yankees were his greatest thrills in baseball. | ||
* Led the 1937 Arizona-Texas League pitchers in bases on balls issued with 141 and games won with 21. | * Led the 1937 Arizona-Texas League pitchers in bases on balls issued with 141 and games won with 21. | ||
| + | * Led the 1952 Pacific Coast League pitchers in games pitched with 69 and this set a new Pacific Coast League record that was one better than the former record of 68 that was held by Irving Higginbotham of Portland in 1914. | ||
| + | * Also set a new Pacific Coast League record for the most games by a pitcher in one season without an error with 69 breaking the mark of Henry Krause of Portland of 61 games and tied by Lloyd Hittle of Oakland in 1951. | ||
=== Outside of baseball === | === Outside of baseball === | ||
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=== Career notes === | === Career notes === | ||
| - | * | + | * In the armed forces in 1945. |
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
* {{cite-book | title=1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches}} | * {{cite-book | title=1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches}} | ||
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* {{cite-book | title=1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book}} | * {{cite-book | title=1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book}} | ||
Latest revision as of 15:18, 20 June 2010
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[edit] Profile
[edit] Personal
- Resided in Manteca, California in 1952 and 1953.
- Listed hobbies as fishing and playing cards.
- Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry.
[edit] Pre-professional career
- Attended Manteca High School.
- Was on the baseball, football, basketball and track teams in high school.
- Played American Legion ball in Lodi, California in 1932.
[edit] Achievements
- Winning seven straight games with the Washington Senators in 1943 and hitting an inside the park home run against the New York Yankees were his greatest thrills in baseball.
- Led the 1937 Arizona-Texas League pitchers in bases on balls issued with 141 and games won with 21.
- Led the 1952 Pacific Coast League pitchers in games pitched with 69 and this set a new Pacific Coast League record that was one better than the former record of 68 that was held by Irving Higginbotham of Portland in 1914.
- Also set a new Pacific Coast League record for the most games by a pitcher in one season without an error with 69 breaking the mark of Henry Krause of Portland of 61 games and tied by Lloyd Hittle of Oakland in 1951.
[edit] Outside of baseball
- Served in the U.S. Army Infantry in World War II from 1945 to 1946.
[edit] Career notes
- In the armed forces in 1945.
[edit] Sources
- 1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches.
- 1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book.
