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== Profile ==
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=== Personal ===
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* Resided in Buffalo, Minnesota in 1955.
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* Self-identified as being of German and Norwegian ancestry.
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* Shows he is single.
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=== Pre-professional career ===
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* Graduated from Buffalo High School in 1950.
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* Played basketball and baseball in high school.
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* Led the high school basketball team in scoring during his senior year from the guard position.
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* Pitched two no-hitters in high school.
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* His high school baseball team was the state runners-up in 1950.
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* Is a student at the University Of Minnesota during the off-season.
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* Played freshman basketball and baseball at the University Of Minnesota.
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== Outside of baseball ==
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* Served forty-five months in the U. S. Air Force.
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== Contract signing ==
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* Was signed to his first professional contract by Ivy Griffin of the Chicago Cubs.
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== Source ==
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* {{cite-book | title=1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition)}}

Revision as of 12:50, 3 February 2010


Contents

Profile

Personal

  • Resided in Buffalo, Minnesota in 1955.
  • Self-identified as being of German and Norwegian ancestry.
  • Shows he is single.

Pre-professional career

  • Graduated from Buffalo High School in 1950.
  • Played basketball and baseball in high school.
  • Led the high school basketball team in scoring during his senior year from the guard position.
  • Pitched two no-hitters in high school.
  • His high school baseball team was the state runners-up in 1950.
  • Is a student at the University Of Minnesota during the off-season.
  • Played freshman basketball and baseball at the University Of Minnesota.

Outside of baseball

  • Served forty-five months in the U. S. Air Force.

Contract signing

  • Was signed to his first professional contract by Ivy Griffin of the Chicago Cubs.

Source

  • 1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition).
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