Did you know? Hit a career-best .323 and just missed winning the 1960 National League batting crown, finishing two points behind Dick Groat of the Pirates.
Post Game: Served as an executive for a Long Beach company that specialized in moving the household effects of military personnel ... was inducted into the Hazelton YMCA Sports HOF in 1978, he Luzerne County Sports HOF in 1985, the Carbon County Sports HOF in 1998, and the Hazelton Area Sports HOF in 2008 ... died on March 12, 2007 at age 76.
Sources: Baseball Reference; USA Today, 2/17/1989; Hazelton Standard-Speaker, 12/22/1977, 1/31/1978, 6/15/1993, 2/10/1998, 9/9/1998, 3/21/2007, 6/20/2008.
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