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Profile

Personal

  • Resided in Long Beach, California in 1953.

Pre-professional career

  • Graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach in 1950.
  • Played baseball in high school.

Outside of baseball

  • Is an aircraft worker during the off-season.
  • Served in the U. S. Army for 4 1/2 months.

Contract signing

  • Was signed to his first professional contract by Bob Hughes of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Source

  • 1953 California League Gold Book (Fifth Edition).