Career: Played in the big leagues for parts of 10 seasons with six different teams, including the Dodgers in 1966.
Did you know? Hit 66 homers for the Lincoln Chiefs of the Class-A Western League in 1956, including a record 610-foot blast in Pueblo, Colorado.
Post Game: Worked as an insurance salesman in the 1970s, but details are sketchy thereafter ... died in 2002 at age 70 after a bout with cancer.
Sources: baseball-reference.com; Des Moines Register, 8/28/1956; Detroit Free Press, 8/10/1974; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/19/2002.
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