Robin Evan Roberts was an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher who pitched primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies (1948–1961). He spent the latter part of his career with the Baltimore Orioles (1962–1965),Houston Astros (1965–66),and Chicago Cubs (1966). Roberts was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.
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Arthur John Ditmar was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics and the New York Yankees (1957–61).
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Bobby Gene Tiefenauer was an American professional baseball player and coach. A knuckleball relief pitcher,he pitched for six Major League teams during a ten-year MLB career that stretched between 1952 and 1968:the St. Louis Cardinals,Cleveland Indians,Houston Colt .45s (1962),Milwaukee Braves (1963–65),New York Yankees (1965) and Chicago Cubs (1968). Tiefenauer was born in Desloge,Missouri;he threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 190 pounds (86 kg).
Irving Arnold Noren was an American professional baseball and basketball player. He was an outfielder in the Major Leagues from 1950 through 1960 for the Washington Senators,New York Yankees,Kansas City Athletics,St. Louis Cardinals,Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers. He also played for the National Basketball League's Chicago American Gears in 1946–47. Later in his baseball career,Noren was a minor league manager and the third-base coach of the 1972–73 World Series champion Oakland Athletics. As a player and coach between 1950 and 1975,Noren was a member of five world championship teams. The last surviving member of the 1952 World Series champion Yankees,he died at his home in Oceanside,California,on November 15,2019,at age 94.
The 1952 Philadelphia Athletics season saw the A's finish fourth and in the first division of the American League with a record of 79 wins and 75 losses. They finished 16 games behind the eventual World Series champion New York Yankees. Managed by Jimmy Dykes,they attracted 627,100 fans to Shibe Park,seventh among the Junior Circuit's eight teams.
Carroll Wayne Belardi was an American professional baseball player. The first baseman and native of St. Helena,California,appeared in 263 games in Major League Baseball over all or parts of six seasons for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Detroit Tigers. He threw and batted left-handed,stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg).
John Charles Anderson was an American professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher who appeared in 24 games during parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball between 1958 and 1962 for the Philadelphia Phillies,Baltimore Orioles,St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Colt .45s. His professional career spanned 472 games and 16 seasons,from 1952 to 1967,most of which were spent in the minor leagues.
Wilmer Ebert Shantz was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He appeared in 131 Major League Baseball (MLB) games,130 of them for the 1954–55 Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics and one for the 1960 New York Yankees. His older brother,Bobby,a left-handed pitcher,played in the Majors for 16 seasons (1949–64) and was the Most Valuable Player in the American League in 1952. In contrast to his diminutive brother Bobby,who stood 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) tall,Billy Shantz was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 160 pounds (73 kg). He batted and threw right-handed.
The 1961 Major League Baseball expansion resulted in the formation of two new Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises in the American League (AL). A new club was started in Washington,D.C.,and took the existing name of the Senators,as the previous team of the same name moved to Minnesota for the start of the 1961 season and became the Twins. The second new franchise was granted to an ownership group led by Gene Autry for a team in Los Angeles who named themselves the Angels. The two new teams each paid a fee of $2.1 million and became the 17th and 18th franchises in MLB.
