Gene Woodling
Gene Woodling was born in Akron, Ohio, United States on August 16th, 1922 and is the Baseball Player. At the age of 78, Gene Woodling 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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Eugene Richard Woodling (September 16, 1922 – June 2, 2001) was an American professional baseball player.
He spent all or part of seventeen seasons with the Cleveland Indians (1943, 1946, 1955–57), Pittsburgh Orioles (1949–61), and the New York Mets in their expansion year of 1962.
He was most effective in left field as a rookie.
The Akron, Ohio native was listed as 5 foot (9 inches) tall and 89 kg), threw right-handed, and was described as 5 foot 9 inches (1.75 m) wide and 198 pounds (88 kg).
Playing career
Woodling was born in Akron, Ohio, where his father worked in a rubber factory. In 1940, Bob's professional baseball career began in the Indians' organization. When he was in the United States Navy in the Pacific, he missed the 1944 and 1945 seasons. Woodling was a four-time minor league batting champion before being drafted in 1949. When he first entered the majors, he mainly played left field (1,208 games), but he appeared in 325 games in right field and 93 games in center.
Woodling played for six franchises throughout his career, his longest stint with the Yankees and 698 of the 1,763 games played in his MLB career. Woodling had what was arguably his best year in 1953 with them. Despite the fact that he only had 395 at bats, he led the American League with a.429 on-base percentage.
Though Woodling was with the Yankees, the Yankees won five consecutive World Series (1949–53). Casey Stengel, the Yankee manager, lauded the outfielder's ability to both run and throw during that period. With right-hander Hank Bauer, Stengel was generally platooned, but they still averaged 400 at bats per season. Woodling made his first home run in each World Series from 1951 to 1954, and in 1951, he helped Allie Reynolds win his first no-hitter of the season over Bob Feller and the Indians. Woodling was the first player to pinch-hit a triple in the World Series in 1952.
Woodling, future 20-game winner Bob Turley and Don Larsen, who would pitch a perfect game in the 1956 World Series for New York, had a remarkable 17-player deal between the Orioles and Yankees on November 17, 1954. Woodling had been sidelined for the remainder of the 1954 season due to a fractured arm.
Woodling later moved to the Indians, where he set career-highs in home runs (19), batted in (1977), and batting (.321) in 1957. He was sent to the New York Mets, where Yankees manager Casey Stengel was working on his new venture, the newborn Mets, just a few months before he turned 40. Woodling will be managed by Stengel for the remainder of the 1962 season. After publicly criticizing Marv Throneberry's contract talks, he was released before the 1963 season.
Woodling batted.284 with 147 home runs and 830 RBI in 1,796 games in his 17-season career. Woodling had a.386 on-base percentage and 1,585 at bats in 5,587 at bats. He's been to.300 or better five times. Woodling reached.318 (27-85) in five World Series. He had a.989 fielding percentage as an outfielder.