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Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 2 Outside of baseball 3 Contract signing 4 Source

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).