Did you know? Was a two-sport star at Stanford University, where he played outfield on the baseball team and linebacker and fullback on the football squad ... set World Series record with two pinch-hit home runs in the 1959 Classic, helping the Dodgers defeat the "Go-Go" White Sox in six games ... joined Jackie Jensen as one of two athletes to play in a Rose Bowl and a World Series.
Post Game: Graduated from law school in 1974, worked for a shirt stint as a Pasadena city attorney prosecutor, and later opened his own law firm, retiring in 1996 ... was inducted into the American Armenian Sports HOF in 2002.
Sources: Basebball Reference; Sacramento Bee, 11/16/1976; Los Angeles Times, 10/4/1979, 4/12/1990, 10/2/1994, 10/23/2006; calbar.ca.gov.
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