Did you know? Threw out the Yankees' Billy Martin at home plate from left field for a rare walk-off assist to end Game 4 of the 1953 World Series.
Post-game: Founded, owned and operated a real estate agency in Asheville, NC ... was inducted into the Oak Ridge Military Academy HOF in 1994 and the Brooklyn Dodgers HOF in 1998 ... died on September 28, 2009 at age 85 after a long illness.
Sources: Baseball Reference; Asheville Citizen Times, 4/17/1987, 11/9/1994, 5/3/1998, 9/30/2009; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 10/4/1953; White Plains Journal News, 9/30/2009.
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