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American baseball player (1921-1964)
Baseball player
Herb Conyers
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First baseman
/
Pinch hitter
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Born:
(
1921-01-08
)
January 8, 1921
Cowgill, Missouri
, U.S.
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Died:
September 16, 1964
(1964-09-16)
(aged 43)
Cleveland, Ohio
, U.S.
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April 18, 1950, for the Cleveland Indians
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October 1, 1950, for the Cleveland Indians
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Batting average
| .333
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Home runs
| 1
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Hits
| 3
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Herbert Leroy Conyers
(January 8, 1921 ? September 16, 1964) was an
American
professional baseball
player
whose career lasted for nine seasons (1941?1942; 1946?1952). A
first baseman
, he appeared in seven
Major League
games
for the
Cleveland Indians
during the
1950
season. Born in
Cowgill, Missouri
, Conyers threw and batted
left-handed
; he stood 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) tall and weighed 210 pounds (95 kg).
Conyers spent almost all of his pro career in the Cleveland
minor league
organization. His trial with the
1950 Indians
came at the beginning and tail end of the season. After going
two
for
four
with a
base on balls
as a
pinch hitter
between April 18 and May 17, he spent the bulk of the season with Cleveland's two top
farm teams
, the
Oklahoma City Indians
and the
San Diego Padres
.
[1]
Recalled late in the campaign, he started his final MLB game on October 1 against the
Detroit Tigers
; he garnered only one hit in five at bats, but it was a solo
home run
off
Marlin Stuart
that ignited a five-
run
eighth-
inning
rally and enabled the Indians to overtake the Tigers, 7?5.
[2]
Conyers died at age 43 from
cancer
[3]
in
Cleveland, Ohio
. He was buried at nearby
Knollwood Cemetery
.
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