Did you know? Hit a home-run in his first big league game, a two-run shot in the eighth inning off Dick Hall as the Dodgers beat the Phillies, 10-9, at Connie Mack Stadium on September 3, 1968.
Post-game: After several failed business ventures and troubles with the law, managed an independent league team for one season and thereafter served as a youth baseball instructor and travel coach in the Palm Springs Desert Valley for many years ... died on September 15, 2021 at age 75 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Sources: Baseball Reference; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9/19/1987; Los Angeles Times, 6/25/1991; Palm Springs Desert Sun, 5/11/1997, 3/20/1999, 6/29/1998, 7/11/2001, 10/2/2005; RIPbaseball.com, accessed 5/27/2022.
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