Did you know? Batted .321 with 37 homers and 140 RBI in 225 games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Post-game: Served as head baseball coach at John Brown University for 10 seasons, big league coach for the Padres in 1969, owner of the San Antonio Missions of the Texas League (1977-79), and later worked as a minor league manager for the Yankees, and minor league hitting instructor for the Orioles ... was inducted into the Texas A&M HOF in 1967 ... died on February 9, 2018 at age 87.
Sources: Baseball-Reference; SABR Bio; Retrosheet; Los Angeles Times, 2/12/2018; Austin American, 10/26/1967.
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