About Inductee

Major league baseball player from 1961-72...Participated in more than 1,400 major league games...Member of two World Series teams (1965 and 1972)..Selected to two All-Star games (1967 and 1969)...four personal records are in Baseball Hall of Fame: (1) most hits in a World Series by pinch-hitters in one inning; (2) home run in first World Series at-bat; (3) most assists by a first baseman in a World Series game: (4) on a club with five home runs in one inning...played for Minnesota Twins (1961-66), California Angels (1967-68), Seattle Pilots (1969), Oakland As (1970) and As and Washington Senators (1971), Texas Rangers and Oakland (1972)..Member of World Champion As in 72...career record of 200 home runs, 643 RBI, 249 batting average...Ail-State in football and basketball at Butler...First General Manager of Huntsville Stars (1986)..Inducted into Huntsvilles Athletic Booster Club (ABC) Hall of Fame.