American baseball player (1917-1976)
Baseball player
Mike McCormick
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Outfielder
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Born:
(
1917-05-06
)
May 6, 1917
Angels Camp, California
, U.S.
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Died:
April 13, 1976
(1976-04-13)
(aged 58)
Los Angeles
, California, U.S.
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Batted:
Right
Threw:
Right
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April 16, 1940, for the Cincinnati Reds
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September 30, 1951, for the Washington Senators
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Batting average
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Home runs
| 14
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Runs batted in
| 215
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Myron Winthrop
"
Mike
"
McCormick
(May 6, 1917 ? April 13, 1976) was an American
professional baseball
player. He was an
outfielder
for the
Cincinnati Reds
(1940?43 and 1946),
Boston Braves
(1946?48),
Brooklyn Dodgers
(1949),
New York Giants
(1950),
Chicago White Sox
(1950) and
Washington Senators
(1951) of
Major League Baseball
.
Biography
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McCormick in 1943
McCormick was born in
Angels Camp, California
, stood 6 feet (180 cm) tall, weighed 190 pounds (86 kg), and threw and batted
right-handed
.
He helped the Reds win the
1940 World Series
, and led the National League in
sacrifice hits
that season. Forty games into the 1942 season, McCormick was sidelined with a broken leg. He returned to the Reds for the 1943 season, but he was inducted into the military after only a few games. He missed the 1944 and 1945 seasons due to military service. He served in the
Army Air Force
and played on a military baseball team with
Joe DiMaggio
in Hawaii.
[1]
After the Braves won the
1948
National League pennant, he was traded from the Braves to the Brooklyn Dodgers in December of that year; he and an unnamed player were sent to Brooklyn in exchange for
Pete Reiser
.
[2]
The Dodgers won the
1949
NL pennant. The next year, he was signed by the New York Giants, played for Oakland of the
Pacific Coast League
, and had his contract purchased by the
Chicago White Sox
that June.
[3]
[4]
In 10 seasons he played in 748 games and had 2,325 at bats, 302 runs, 640 hits, 100 doubles, 29 triples, 14 home runs, 215 RBI, 16 stolen bases, 188 walks, .275 batting average, .330 on-base percentage, .361 slugging percentage, 840 total bases and 72 sacrifice hits. Defensively, he recorded a .980
fielding percentage
at all three outfield positions.
In April 1976, McCormick was attending a game at
Dodger Stadium
when he suffered a
heart attack
. He died at a
Los Angeles
hospital.
[5]
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