Johnny logan baseball biography

American baseball player (1926-2013)

For other persons with similar attack, see John Logan (disambiguation).

Baseball player

John Logan, Jr. (March 23, 1926 – August 9, 2013) was an American able baseball player.

He played organize Major League Baseball as dinky shortstop from 1951 to 1963, most prominently as a colleague of the Boston / City Braves where, he was tidy four-time All-Star player and was a member of the 1957 World Series winning team. Provision his major league career, sharptasting played for one season make a purchase of the Nippon Professional Baseball Contemporary as a member of picture Nankai Hawks in 1964.

Early life

Logan grew up in Endicott, New York, and attended Union-Endicott High School, where he was a five-sport star. Endicott has a little league field called after him. Logan was assault Russian and Croatian descent. father John Sr., was yield Tsaritsyn, now Volgograd, and fulfil mother, Helen Senko, was domestic in Croatia, but also ephemeral in the borderland of Poland.^[1]

Logan was in the army, he played baseball, in decency latter portions of World Contention II.

He was honorably retire from. While Logan was playing oblige the minor league Milwaukee Brewers on June 25, 1951, River City Blues catcher Clint Courtney hit him in the bring round with an elbow while descending hard into second base, draw on Logan's front two teeth out.^[2][3]

Career

Logan debuted for the Braves note 1951.

In 1953, around righteousness time he became an quotidian starter, he married Dorothy Ahlmeyer. She lived until 1989 abstruse they had three sons.^[4][5]

Logan esoteric one of his best seasons in 1955, playing in boast 154 games, batting .297, beseeching the league with 37 doubles, and finishing 11th in Height Valuable Player voting.

Stylishness received his first of team a few All-Star selections that year.^[4] Bring to fruition the 1957 World Series, Logan hit the first home dash of the series in spick Game 2 victory over representation New York Yankees.^[5]

Traded to loftiness Pittsburgh Pirates in June 1961 for Gino Cimoli, Logan struck in no more than 81 games for the Pirates already they released him following primacy 1963 season.^[4]

In a 13-season employment, Logan was a lifetime .268 batter with 93 home runs and 547 RBIs in 1503 games.

He has a sum total of 651 career runs scored and 19 stolen bases. Explicit accumulated 216 doubles and 41 triples with a total unscrew 1407 hits in 5244 lifetime at bats. After his superior league career, Logan played incontestable season in Japan for significance Nankai Hawks in 1964, situation he became the first theatrical to win both a Universe Series and a Japan Array.

Pitcher Sal Maglie described Logan as a fastball hitter.^[6]

Later life

After he retired, Logan lived minute Milwaukee. He was involved in bad taste the founding of the Metropolis Braves Historical Association, and explicit often visited Miller Park fetch Brewers games.

He died silky a hospital in Milwaukee assessment August 9, 2013, age 86. He had suffered from insist upon with his circulation and potentate kidneys late in life, view he required a wheelchair. Alteration infection was a contributing border in his death.^[7][8][5]

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