Did you know? Played baseball, basketball and football at the University of North Carolina ... hurled the first no-hitter in Carolina League history on July 17, 1945, but lost the game, 1-0, on a wild pitch.
Post-game: Served briefly as the baseball and basketball coach at Presbyterian College, and then worked at Clinton Mills, a South Carolina textile manufacturing company for 50 years, retiring in 1998 after rising to the rank of vice president and part-owner ... died on December 19, 2002 at age 78.
Sources: Baseball Reference; SABR Bio; Greenville News, 3/27/1966, 12/24/1984, 12/20/2002; The State, 6/14/1987, 4/15/1997.
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