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From SABR Encyclopedia

Contents 1 Profile 1.1 Personal 1.2 Pre-professional career 1.3 Achievements 1.4 Outside of baseball 1.5 Contract signing 2 Sources

[edit] Profile

[edit] Personal

• Resided in Menlo Park, California in 1955.
• Self-identified as being of English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, German and French ancestry.
• Listed hobby as woodshop.
• Single in 1955.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Graduated from Menlo Atherton High School in 1953.
• Played football, basketball and baseball in high school.
• Attended San Mateo Junior College.

[edit] Achievements

• Struck out ninety batters in eighty-seven innings in the 1954 Appalachain League.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Was a student during the off-season in 1955.

[edit] Contract signing

• Was signed to his first contract by Bill Marshall of the Milwaukee Braves.

[edit] Sources

• 1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition).