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Bats: L · Throws: L · Born 1915-07-01 · Played 1936–1948 · College: Fordham University (1934–1936) · Career WAR 11.1 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=youngba01, LAHMAN=youngba01, MLBAM=124709, RETROSHEET=younb102

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1936	NY1	NL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
1939	NY1	NL	22	75	8	23	4	0	3	14	0	5	6	.307	.373	.480	.853	0.4
1940	NY1	NL	149	556	75	159	27	4	17	101	4	69	28	.286	.367	.441	.808	3.3
1941	NY1	NL	152	574	90	152	28	5	25	104	1	66	39	.265	.346	.462	.808	2.6
1942	NY1	NL	101	287	37	80	17	1	11	59	1	34	22	.279	.365	.460	.825	2.2
1946	NY1	NL	104	291	30	81	11	0	7	33	3	30	21	.278	.346	.388	.734	1.0
1947	NY1	NL	14	14	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.071	.071	.143	.214	1.6
1947	CIN	NL	95	364	55	103	21	3	14	79	0	35	26	.283	.349	.473	.822
1948	CIN	NL	49	130	11	30	7	2	1	12	0	19	12	.231	.329	.338	.667	0.0
1948	SLN	NL	41	111	14	27	5	2	1	13	0	16	6	.243	.339	.351	.690
Total			728	2403	320	656	121	17	79	415	9	274	161	.273	.347	.436	.784	11.1

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	PO	A	E	DP
1939	NY1	NL	1B	22	214	9	4	18
1940	NY1	NL	1B	147	1505	86	13	112
1941	NY1	NL	1B	150	1395	87	21	124
1942	NY1	NL	1B	18	159	12	3	11
1942	NY1	NL	OF	54	101	4	3	2
1946	NY1	NL	1B	49	452	24	6	25
1946	NY1	NL	OF	24	40	0	1	0
1947	CIN	NL	1B	93	730	56	8	66
1948	CIN	NL	1B	31	261	21	2	31
1948	CIN	NL	OF	1	2	0	0	0
1948	SLN	NL	1B	35	266	8	1	23
Total				624	5125	307	62	412

Ejections (1)

Date	As	Reason
1947-06-30	Player	Called third strike

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