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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 Detroit, Michigan in 1955.
• Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry.
• Listed hobby as golf.
• Single in 1955.
• Baseball ambition was "money" in 1955.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Graduated from Denby High School in 1952.
• Played baseball in high school.
• Played American Legion ball in Detroit.

[edit] Achievements

• Led the 1952 Coastal Plain League shortstops in putouts with 210.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Was a mambo dance instructor dduring the off-season.
• Served two years in the U.S. Army.

[edit] Contract signing

• Was signed to his first contract by Lou D'Annunzio of the Detroit Tigers.

[edit] Sources

• 1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition).