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From SABR Encyclopedia

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

Profile

Personal

• Resided in San Francisco, California in 1952 and 1953.
• Self-identified as being of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
• Listed hobbies as 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.

Sources

• 1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches.
• 1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book.