Claude Buckley/pagetext

From SABR Encyclopedia

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

[edit] Profile

[edit] Personal

• Resided in Hood River, Oregon in 1953.
• Self-identified as being of Irish and German ancestry.
• Listed hobbies included hunting and fishing.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Graduated from Odell High School in Hood River in 1945 participated in all sports.
• Graduate of Oregon College of Education with a B.A. degree and played varsity baseball and basketball.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Was a schoolteacher during the off-season.
• Served in the U. S. Army for 15 months.

[edit] Sources

• 1953 Pioneer League Index (Second Edition).