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-	{{person-narrative-stub}}	+	== Profile ==
		+	* Released by Dallas (Texas League) on May 22, 1956.{{footnote-newspaper | title= Texas League, Dunham Back with Eagles| newspaper= The Sporting News| year= 1956| month= 05| day= 30| pages= 33| last= | first= }}
-	Released by Dallas (Texas League) on May 22, 1956
-	{{cite-newspaper | title= Texas League, Dunham Back with Eagles| newspaper= The Sporting News| year= 1956| month= 05| day= 30| pages= 33| last= | first= }}	+	== Profile ==
		+
		+	=== Personal ===
		+	* Resided in Leavittsburg, Ohio in 1953.
		+	* Took him two years to recouperate from his broken leg he got in the last playoff game in 1950.
		+
		+	=== Pre-professional career ===
		+	* Attended Leavittsburg High School.
		+	* Won 10 letters in high school in baseball, basketball and track.
		+	* Was all-state in all sports, exept baseball, in high school.
		+
		+	=== Achievements ===
		+	* Hit three successive homeruns in a game for Fayetteville, North Carolina in the Tri-State League on August 3, 1948.
		+	* Led the 1950 Nashville team to the Southern Association playoff title; a broken finger handicapped him during the last weeks of the season and he then broke his leg sliding into a base during the last game of the playoffs against Atlanta.
		+
		+	=== Outside of baseball ===
		+	* Is an apprentice pipefitter and also an arms inspector for the Army during the off-season.
		+
		+	== Sources ==
		+	* {{cite-book | title=1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book}}

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Contents 1 Profile 2 Profile 2.1 Personal 2.2 Pre-professional career 2.3 Achievements 2.4 Outside of baseball 3 Sources

[edit] Profile

• Released by Dallas (Texas League) on May 22, 1956.^[1]

[edit] Profile

[edit] Personal

• Resided in Leavittsburg, Ohio in 1953.
• Took him two years to recouperate from his broken leg he got in the last playoff game in 1950.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Attended Leavittsburg High School.
• Won 10 letters in high school in baseball, basketball and track.
• Was all-state in all sports, exept baseball, in high school.

[edit] Achievements

• Hit three successive homeruns in a game for Fayetteville, North Carolina in the Tri-State League on August 3, 1948.
• Led the 1950 Nashville team to the Southern Association playoff title; a broken finger handicapped him during the last weeks of the season and he then broke his leg sliding into a base during the last game of the playoffs against Atlanta.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Is an apprentice pipefitter and also an arms inspector for the Army during the off-season.

[edit] Sources

• 1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book.