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Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 2 Outside of baseball 3 Source = 3.1 Profile 3.1.1 Personal 3.2 Source

Profile

Personal

• Resided in San Francisco, California in 1952.
• Self-identified as being of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
• Shows his hobbies are movies, golf and horses.
• Won his first game 10-1 giving up four hits when he started his pro career with in 1946 with

 Lynn of the New England League.

• Pitching against the Detroit Tigers in a spring training game, hitting a double to tie the

 score and then winning 2-1 in the ninth inning was his biggest thrill; he held the Tigers to but 
 three hits and picked two runners off first base.

Pre-professional career

• Attended Polytechnic High School.
• Played baseball and baskeball at high school.

Outside of baseball

• Employed in the Motor Vehicle department during the off-season.
• Saw action in Iwo Jima, Japan and other hot spots during the war.
• Played some ball with the Marines during World War II.

Source =

• 1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches.

Profile

Personal

• Resided in San Francisco, California in 1953.

Source

• 1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book.