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From SABR Encyclopedia

Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 1.3 Outside of baseball 1.4 Contract signing 2 Sources

[edit] Profile

[edit] Personal

• Resided in Sanger, California in 1954.
• Listed hobbies as fishing and reading.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Graduated from Sanger Union High School in 1952.
• Played baseball and basketball in high school.
• Pitched and won the San Joaquin Valley championship game in his sophomore year.
• Attended Fresno State College.
• Played basketball and baseball in college.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Farmed during the off-season in 1954.

[edit] Contract signing

• Was signed to his first professional contract by Cliff Hathaway of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

[edit] Sources

• 1954 California League Gold Book (Sixth Edition).