Career: Played in the big leagues for parts of nine seasons with six different teams, including the Dodgers in 1957 and 1958.
Did you know? Won both ends of a high school doubleheader, pitching the first game left-handed and the second game right-handed.
Post game: Owned and operated a gas station and an auto repair shop in his hometown of Grinnell, Iowa ... was inducted into the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame as a player ... died at age 82 on August 29, 2009.
Sources: Baseball Reference; Des Moines Register, 9/1/2009, 7/8/2015.
Did you know? Won both ends of a high school doubleheader, pitching the first game left-handed and the second game right-handed.
Post game: Owned and operated a gas station and an auto repair shop in his hometown of Grinnell, Iowa ... was inducted into the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame as a player ... died at age 82 on August 29, 2009.
Sources: Baseball Reference; Des Moines Register, 9/1/2009, 7/8/2015.
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