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We are the Hunstville Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame.
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POBOX 566
Hunstville, Al 35804
We are the Hunstville Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame.
POBOX 566
Hunstville, Al 35804
Born in1916 and died in1953...born on a farm a mile south of Owens Cross Roads. Was on the first Owens Cross Roads basketball team, and later became the first All-State basketball player from New Hope High School...went to the University of Alabama on a basketball scholarship in 1934..,signed a $5,000 baseball contract with the Boston Red Sox in 1936... in his first professional at-bat, he hit a grand slam home run in Little Rock off future Hall of Famer Bob Fellercalled up by the Red Sox with Ted Williams in 1939...ended his major league career with the Philadelphia Phiillies in 1944...a strong-armed third baseman, he had a lifetime batting average of .279, with 104 homers and 598 RBlon July 4, 1939, he hit two grand slam homers in the second game of a doubleheader...died of congestive heart failure In Sacramento,
