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Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 2 Achievements 3 Outside of baseball 4 Career notes 5 Source 6 Profile 6.1 Personal 7 Achievements 8 Source

Profile

Personal

• Resided in Manteca, California in 1952.
• Shows his hobbies are fishing and playing cards.
• Winning seven straight games with the Washington Senators in 1943 and hitting an inside the

 park home run against the New York Yankees were his greatest thrills in baseball.

Pre-professional career

• Attended Manteca High School.
• Was on the baseball, football, basketball and track teams in high school.
• Played American Legion ball in Lodi, California in 1932.

Achievements

• Led the 1937 Arizona-Texas League pitchers in bases on balls issued with 141 and games won

 with 21.

Outside of baseball

• Served in the U. S. Army Infantry in World War II from 1945 to 1946.

Career notes

• 1945 Shows "Armed forces"

Source

• 1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches.

Profile

Personal

• Resided in Manteca, California in 1953.
• Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry.

Achievements

• Led the 1952 Pacific Coast League pitchers in games pitched with 69 and this set a new Pacific

 Coast League record that was one better than the former record of 68 that was held by Irving
 Higginbotham of Portland in 1914.

• Also set a new Pacific Coast League record for the most games by a pitcher in one season without

 an error with 69 breaking the mark of Henry Krause of Portland of 61 games and tied by Lloyd
 Hittle of Oakland in 1951.

Source

• 1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book.