Carl Furillo
Carl Furillo was born in Stony Creek Mills, Pennsylvania, United States on March 8th, 1922 and is the Baseball Player. At the age of 66, Carl Furillo biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Carl Anthony Furillo (March 8, 1922 – January 21, 1989), nicknamed "The Reading Rifle" and "Skoonj," was an American professional baseball right fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB), spending his entire career with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers.
Furillo batted over.300 five times from 1947 to 1959 inclusive, the highest by a right-handed hitting Dodger since 1900.
He had 10 or more assists in nine seasons, including two seasons as the league's best-most games in right field (1,408) in NL history, and he retired with the fifth-most games in right field (1,408) in NL history.
Early years, minor league baseball
Furillo was born in Stony Creek Mills, Pennsylvania. He was born in Campania, Italy's first immigrants. His father was from Caserta, and his mother was from Benevento, province. As a result, he dropped out of school in the eighth grade and became unpopular among his peers; they would later mention that he rarely socialized with players who were more educated. He signed with the Reading, Pennsylvania team in the Interstate League, earning one of his nicknames with his strong arm; the Dodgers were so impressed by his ability that they bought the entire minor league team to buy him. "Skoonj" (snail) was his other name, and it came from the Italian word scungilli ("snail"), which was his favorite dish.
Major league career
He batted.295 for the 1947 NL pennant champions, finishing ninth in the league with 88 runs batted in. He was one of the Dodgers' 1949 champions, hitting.322 (4th in the NL) and placing sixth in the league's top ten players in RBI (106), triples (1996), and total bases (278); he finished sixth in the MVP voting. With 18 home runs, 106 RBI, and a career-high 99 runs, he batted.305 (7th in the league) in 1950, finishing seventh in the league. He set a personal record with 197 runs, finishing third in the NL for the second year in a row; he also batted.295 (9th in the NL) with 91 RBI and 93 runs. He set a team record of 667 at bats, surpassing Ivy Olson's 1921 total of 652; Maury Wills set his record of 695 in 1962.
After being the NL's top right-field wall at Ebbets Field in 1950 (19) and 1951 (24), opposing runners were less hesitant to challenge his arm. After Queen had apparently singled out right field, he threw out Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Mel Queen by two feet at first base on August 27, 1951. Furillo was "one of the finest players in the game" during spring training, according to the New York Journal-American, who characterized his style as "close to mechanical perfection." Despite being selected to his first All-Star squad, Furillo batted only.247 for the 1952 pennant winners. Diagnosed with cataracts, he underwent surgery in the offseason and returned to perhaps his best season, winning the batting championship and racking 21 home runs and 92 RBI with a career-best 38 doubles (3rd in the NL). His.344 average was the highest by a right-handed Dodgers hitter since Oyster Burns hit.354 in 1894; Tommy Davis topped him with a.346 record in 1962. He was again named an All-Star, finishing the year fifth in the league in slugging (.580) and ninth in the MVP poll.
Furillo's season came to an end against the Giants on September 6; he was batting against Rubén Gómez in the second inning, and opposing manager Leo Durocher was yelling for Gomez to "stick it in his ear"; Furillo was batting at first base but he was led to first base by a pitch; Durocher and Furillo charged into each other. Furillo brought Durocher into a headlock, and Monte Irvin of the Giants stepped on Furillo's hand, breaking a knuckle on his little finger.
He was seventh in the league with a.314 average, 95 RBI, and a career high of 26 homers. He was lowered to a.289 average with the 1956 team, which won the team's seventh pennant in ten years, but he maintained solid power totals with 21 homers, 83 RBI, and 30 doubles. In the Dodgers' last season in Brooklyn, he hit.306 and batted.290 in their first year in Los Angeles, finishing eighth in the league with 83 RBI. His playing time with the 1959 pennant team was reduced to only 50 games, with just 25 of them in the outfield. But he had one last game in the playoff series against the Milwaukee Braves when he sparked out a ground ball in the 12th inning of the second and final game, with Gil Hodges scoring from second base to win the NL flag.