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Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 2 Achievements 3 Career notes 4 Source =

Profile

Personal

• Resided in Long Beach, California in 1952.
• Self-identified as being of Norwegian-Irish-English ancestry.
• Shows his hobby is golf.
• Shows his name is John (Jack) Theodore Salveson, Jr.
• Won his first professional game in 1932 for Winston-Salem of the Piedmont League.
• Has been with five Pacific Coast League clubs.

Pre-professional career

• Attended high school in Long Beach, California.
• Played baseball in high school.
• Played on Bob Hughes' famous semi-pro team in Bellflower, California.

Achievements

• Led the 1940 Pacific Coast League in earned run average with 2.30.
• Led the 1950 Pacific Coast League in earned run average with 2.84 and won-lost percentage

 with .789.
                                                 

Career notes

• 1944 Shows "Voluntarily Retired"

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• 1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches.