Charley Schanz/pagetext

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Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 1.3 Achievements 1.4 Outside of baseball 1.5 Contract signing 2 Sources

Profile

Personal

• Resided in Sacramento, California in 1952.
• Self-identified as being of American ancestry.

Pre-professional career

• Attended high school in Sacramento, California.
• Attended Sacramento Junior College.
• Won six letters in football, baseball, basketball and tennis in college.

Achievements

• Set a Western International League record with 29 complete games in 1942.
• Led the 1943 Pacific Coast League in bases on balls issued with 130.
• Tied a major league record by hitting four batsmen in the first game of a doubleheader on July 15, 1945.

Outside of baseball

• Was an ardent fisherman but also an interior decorator during the off-season as of 1952.

Contract signing

• Was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies on November 1, 1943.

Sources

• 1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches.