Don LeJohn/pagetext

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 Daisytown, Pennsylvania in 1955.
• Self-identified as being of Belgian and Hungarian ancestry.
• Married in 1955.
• Nickname "Ducky".

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Graduated from California Community High School in 1952.
• Played baseball and football in high school.
• Played American Legion baseball.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Was a mill worker during the off-season.

[edit] Contract signing

• Was signed to his first professional contract by Jim Russell of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

[edit] Sources

• 1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition).