Vernon Highfield/pagetext
From SABR Encyclopedia
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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).