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American baseball player (born 1937)
Baseball player
Jack Lloyd Damaska
(born August 21, 1937) is a retired
American
professional baseball
player
. He appeared as a
pinch hitter
,
second baseman
and
left fielder
in five
Major League
games
for the
1963
St. Louis Cardinals
. Listed at 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 168 pounds (76 kg), Damaska batted and threw
right-handed
. He was born in
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
.
Signed by the Cardinals in 1957, Damaska played in 1,902 games during a 17-year-long
minor league
playing career but his five appearances for the Cardinals all occurred in July of
1963
. He took the field only twice, once at
second base
and once in the
outfield
; in four
innings
on defense, he recorded no
chances
. He had a total of five
at bats
, with four
strikeouts
and one hit, a pinch
single
off
Denny Lemaster
of the
Milwaukee Braves
on July 11 in the first game of a
doubleheader
. His hit, however, sparked a five-
run
seventh-inning
rally to enable the Cardinals to defeat the Braves, 6?3. He notched his only MLB run scored and
run batted in
during that rally.
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As late as 1973, Damaska was playing for the
Quebec Carnavals
of the
Double-A
Eastern League
. He spent one year as a minor league
manager
in 1974 for the
Kinston Expos
of the
Class-A
Carolina League
, a
Montreal
affiliate that folded at the end of its only season of play.
When a member of the
International League
All-Stars against the Milwaukee Braves in 1965, Damaska went three-for-four at the plate, drove in two runs and scored another to lead the All-Stars to a 6?2 upset win over the MLB Braves.
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