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From SABR Encyclopedia

Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 1.3 Outside of baseball 1.4 Contract signing 2 Sources

Profile

Personal

• Resided in Sacramento, California in 1949 and 1954.
• Listed hobbies as hunting, fishing and photography.
• His most interesting baseball experience came while playing for Fort Ord in 1951 when he hit a grand slam homer to win a game while the post's commanding general was sitting in the dugout.
• Started his career as a pitcher and then switched to the outfield in 1949.
• Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry.
• Listed hobbies as hunting and fishing in 1949.

Pre-professional career

• Graduated from C. K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento in 1948 and played baseball.
• In a high school game he struck out the first ten batters to face him.
• Played American Legion ball in Sacramento.

Outside of baseball

• Employed by the state of California during the off-season in 1949
• Was an electrician during the off-season in 1954.
• Served two years in the U.S. Army including 16 months in Korea.

Contract signing

• Was signed to his first contract by Charley Wallgren of the Boston Red Sox.

Sources

• 1949 California League Gold Book.
• 1954 California League Gold Book (Sixth Edition).