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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 Career notes 2 Sources

[edit] Profile

[edit] Personal

• Resided in Manteca, California in 1952 and 1953.
• Listed hobbies as fishing and playing cards.
• Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry.

[edit] Pre-professional career

• Attended Manteca High School.
• Was on the baseball, football, basketball and track teams in high school.
• Played American Legion ball in Lodi, California in 1932.

[edit] Achievements

• Winning seven straight games with the Washington Senators in 1943 and hitting an inside the park home run against the New York Yankees were his greatest thrills in baseball.
• Led the 1937 Arizona-Texas League pitchers in bases on balls issued with 141 and games won with 21.
• Led the 1952 Pacific Coast League pitchers in games pitched with 69 and this set a new Pacific Coast League record that was one better than the former record of 68 that was held by Irving Higginbotham of Portland in 1914.
• Also set a new Pacific Coast League record for the most games by a pitcher in one season without an error with 69 breaking the mark of Henry Krause of Portland of 61 games and tied by Lloyd Hittle of Oakland in 1951.

[edit] Outside of baseball

• Served in the U.S. Army Infantry in World War II from 1945 to 1946.

[edit] Career notes

• In the armed forces in 1945.

[edit] Sources

• 1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches.
• 1953 Pacific Coast League Sketch Book.