Joe Schultz
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Joe Schultz | |
Joseph Charles Schultz Jr. | |
"Dode" | |
Bat/Throw: | L/R |
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Height: | 5' 11" |
Weight: | 180 |
Born: | 1918-8-29 at Chicago, IL (US) |
Died: | 1996-1-10 at St. Louis, MO (US) |
Interred: | Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, MO (US) |
More info | |
Statistics: | Retrosheet |
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At the age of thirteen, Joe pinch hit in a regular league game with Houston (Texas League). He was the batboy, his father, Joe Sr. was the manager. After his major league career as a back up catcher,he became a coach and a minor league manager. In his only full season as a major league manager, he lead the Seattle Pilots with a down-to-earth style that was chronicled in Jim Bouton's "Ball Four".
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Footnotes
- ↑ , First edition. The Ballplayers. New York: Arbor House-Willaim Morrow, 1990.