Joe Blake/pagetext

From SABR Encyclopedia

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

[edit] Career highlights

[edit] Personal

• Was residing in Seminole, Oklahoma in 1949.
• Self-identified as being of Irish and Native American descent.
• Listed hunting among his hobbies.
• Brother of Dean Blake.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Played basketball at Seminole High School, graduated in 1945.
• Attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was a member of the baseball team.
• Was a member of the European A.A.C. Baseball Championship team while in military service.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Served in the U. S. Army Air Corps for twenty months.

[edit] Sources

• 1949 California League Gold Book.