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From SABR Encyclopedia

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

[edit] Profile

[edit] Personal

• Resided in San Bernardino, California in 1953.
• Self-identified as being of Swiss-Italian ancestry.

[edit] Professional career

• Attended high school in San Bernardino, California.
• Played baseball in high school.
• Made the All-Citrus Belt League baseball team in high school.
• Received a B.A. Degree from the University of California.
• Won All-Pacific Coast Conference honors.
• Played American Legion ball.
• Got a hit in his first trip on to the plate on the first ball pitched in his first pro game with Albuquerque in the 1949 West Texas-New Mexico League.

[edit] Achievements

• Once hit three home runs in one game, the first two tying the contest and the third winning it; this victory gave his team the semi-pro championship.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Returned to the Oakland Oaks for the 1953 season after serving two years in the Armed Forces.

[edit] Career notes

• 1951, 1952 Shows "Armed Forces"

[edit] Sources

• 1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book.