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Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 1.3 Outside of baseball 1.4 Relatives 2 Source

[edit] Profile

[edit] Personal

• Resided in Lomita, California in 1952.
• Self-Identified as being of English-Irish ancestry.
• Shows he is single.
• Changing over from a first baseman to a catcher was his most unusual experience in baseball.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Graduated from Narbonne High School in 1951.
• Played baseball and basketball in high school.
• Attended Harbor Junior College.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Is an oil worker during the off-season.

[edit] Relatives

• Has a brother, Kyle Bowers, who is a pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system.

[edit] Source

• 1952 Pioneer League Index.