Career: Played in the big leagues for parts of six seasons with five different teams, including the Dodgers as a rookie in 1961.
Did you know? Won Texas League MVP honors in 1959 after belting a league-leading 35 homers and batting .331 for the Double-A Victoria Rosebuds ... Set World Series record in 1964 by reaching base safely in his first four plate appearances (three singles and a walk) to help the Cardinals defeat the Yankees in seven games.
Post-game: Owned and operated a real estate investment company for many years, and later started a corporate travel company; served as chairman for the MLB Alumni Association ... was inducted into the Texas Baseball HOF in 1990 and the TCU Baseball HOF in 1959.
Sources: Baseball Reference; SABR Bio; Victoria Advocate, 11/9/1977, 9/15/1996, 10/17/2002.
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