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== Career highlights == | == Career highlights == | ||
=== Personal === | === Personal === | ||
- | * Was residing in San Francisco, California in 1949. | + | * Was residing in San Francisco, California in 1949 and 1955. |
* Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry | * Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry | ||
+ | * Married in 1955. | ||
- | == | + | === Outside of baseball === |
- | * | + | * Worked as a grocery clerk in the off-season in 1949. |
+ | * Served in the U.S. Army for one year | ||
+ | * Was a bartender during the off-season in 1955. | ||
+ | * Served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years. | ||
+ | * Refereed basketball games for charity in the winter as a hobby as of 1955. | ||
- | == Pre-professional career == | + | === Pre-professional career === |
- | * Participated in baseball | + | * Participated in baseball, track, football, and basketball at Galileo High School in San Francisco, graduated in 1945. He was chosen to play in the Esquire Boys Game. |
+ | * Played in the first Esquire All-American baseball game in 1944. | ||
- | == | + | === Contract signing === |
- | * | + | * Was signed to his first contract by Joe Devine of the New York Yankees. |
- | + | ||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
- | * 1949 California League Gold Book | + | * {{cite-book|title=1949 California League Gold Book}} |
+ | * {{cite-book | title=1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition)}} | ||
* {{cite-book | title=1977 Texas Rangers Organizational Record Book}} | * {{cite-book | title=1977 Texas Rangers Organizational Record Book}} |
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Career highlights
Personal
- Was residing in San Francisco, California in 1949 and 1955.
- Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry
- Married in 1955.
Outside of baseball
- Worked as a grocery clerk in the off-season in 1949.
- Served in the U.S. Army for one year
- Was a bartender during the off-season in 1955.
- Served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years.
- Refereed basketball games for charity in the winter as a hobby as of 1955.
Pre-professional career
- Participated in baseball, track, football, and basketball at Galileo High School in San Francisco, graduated in 1945. He was chosen to play in the Esquire Boys Game.
- Played in the first Esquire All-American baseball game in 1944.
Contract signing
- Was signed to his first contract by Joe Devine of the New York Yankees.
Sources
- 1949 California League Gold Book.
- 1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition).
- 1977 Texas Rangers Organizational Record Book.