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Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 1.3 Outside of baseball 1.4 Contract signing 1.5 Playing in less than ten games statistics 2 Sources

[edit] Profile

[edit] Personal

• Resided in Lyndora, Pennsylvania in 1955.
• Self-identified as being of Slovak ancestry.
• Single in 1955.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Graduated from Butler High School in 1951.
• Played basketball and participated in track in high school.
• Attended Geneva College.
• Played basketball and baseball at college.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Was a student during the off-season in 1955.
• Served two years in the U.S. Army.

[edit] Contract signing

• Was signed to his first contract by Frank McCormick of the Cincinnati Reds.

[edit] Playing in less than ten games statistics

• 1951 Butler Middle Atlantic League 1 G, 1 AB, 0 H, 0 RBI, .000 AVG.

[edit] Sources

• 1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition).