Did you know? Nicknamed "Gabby" becuase he wasn't ... won World Series titles with Dodgers in 1959, 1963 and 1965 ... was a four-time all-star and two-time gold glove winner ... was clubbed in the head with a bat by Juan Marichal on August 22, 1965, in one of baseball's bloodiest brawls ...
Post-game: Worked as a bullpen coach for the Angels and as a minor league instructor for the Dodgers, co-owned a public relations firm with his wife, and worked as an umpire evaluator for the National League in the mid 1990s ... died of complications from a stroke on August 16, 2002 at the age of 69.
Sources: Baseball Reference; SABR Bio; The Spokesman Review, 6/8/1987; Quad-City Times, 5/4/1977; Los Angeles Times, 6/30/2002, 8/20/2022.
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