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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 Achievements 1.5 Sources

Profile

Personal

• Resided in Quincy, Illinois in 1952.
• Self-identified as being of American-German ancestry.
• In his first professional game with Henderson in the 1947 Lone Star League, his twin brother, a pitcher, got beat and Elvin hurt his leg.
• Throwing out four Fort Worth players in 1950 that helped him win a regular post on the Beaumont club was his greatest thrill.

Pre-professional career

• Attended high school in Quincy, Illinois.
• Played baseball and basketball in high school.
• Graduated from Quincy College with a B. A. degree in 1950.
• Played American Legion ball in Quincy in 1943 and 1944.

Outside of baseball

• Was a sporting goods salesman during the off-season as of 1952.
• Served in the U.S. Navy in 1945 and 1946.
• Tappe and his brother ran a sporting goods business in Quincy after their baseball careers ended.^[1]

Achievements

• Tappe was selected to the Quincy HS and the Quincy College Hall of Fame.^[1]

Sources

• 1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches.