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From SABR Encyclopedia

Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 1.3 Achievements 1.4 Outside of baseball 1.5 Career notes 2 Sources

Profile

Personal

• Resided in Manteca, California in 1952 and 1953.
• Listed hobbies as fishing and playing cards.
• Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry.

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

• 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.
• Led the 1937 Arizona-Texas League pitchers in bases on balls issued with 141 and games won with 21.
• 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.

Outside of baseball

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

Career notes

• In the armed forces in 1945.

Sources

• 1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches.
• 1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book.