Did you know? Set a modern NL record (since broken) with four hit batsmen in a single game on June 8, 1940, and led loop that season with 10 HBP despite hurling just 86.2 innings ... was part of a blockbuster six-player and $125,000 trade with the Cardinals that saw Joe Medwick land in Brooklyn on June 12, 1940.
Post-game: Worked as a policeman for the Kingston (TN) Police Department, joining the force in 1942 ... died at age 39 on September 4, 1951 after an illness of several months.
Sources: Baseball Reference; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 8/12/1939, 6/9/1940, 6/13/1940; Knoxville News-Sentinel, 9/5/1951, 9/8/1951; The Sporting News, 9/12/1951.
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