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Profile

Personal

  • Resided in Manteca, California in 1952.
  • Listed hobbies as 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"

Sources

  • 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.

Sources

  • 1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book.
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