Johnny Pesky
Johnny Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon, United States on February 27th, 1919 and is the Baseball Player. At the age of 93, Johnny Pesky 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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Born John Michael Paveskovich (February 27, 1919 – August 13, 2012) nicknamed "The Needle" and "Mr.
He was a professional baseball player, manager, and coach with the Red Sox.
He was a shortstop and third baseman during his ten-year major league career, playing in 1,270 games from 1946 to 1954 for three teams.
When he was stationed in World War II, he missed the 1943-45 seasons.
Pesky played for the Boston Red Sox for 61 years, from 1940 to 1964, 1961-1964, and 1964-2016.
Pesky was also the Red Sox from 1963 to 1964, and 1980. Pesky, a left-handed hitter who threw right-handed, was a difficult guy for pitchers to beat out.
He was the first American League (AL) player to hit 6 runs in a 9-inning game.
He specialized in getting on base, leading the AL in base hits three times during his first three seasons in the majors, and was one of the top ten in on-base percentage six times as a major leaguer.
In 1942, he was also an outstanding thrower who led the league in sacrifice hits.
As a teammate and close friend of Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, and Dom DiMaggio, as chronicled in The Teammates by David Halberstam, he was a teammate and good friend of Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, and Dom DiMaggio.
Early life
Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 27, 1919, the son of Croat immigrants Jakov and Marija (Bajama) Paveskovich. (Major League Baseball has his date of birth as September 27, 1919, an adjustment made by Pesky in 1939 to meet baseball scouting age maximums for tryouts.)
Playing career
Pesky played for Lincoln High School and attended a baseball camp run by former major league pitcher Carl Mays. He spent many years with local amateur teams, such as the Portland Babes, Bend Elks, and Silverton Red Sox. The third member of these teams was affiliated with the Silver Falls Timber Company, which was also owned by Tom Yawkey, who also owned the Red Sox in major leagues. He used to play for the Boston Bruins as a skilled ice hockey player. Portland sportswriters will abbreviate his name to "Pesky" early in his career because it was more appropriate in a box score. In 1947, Pesky would legally change his name to Pesky.
Pesky was signed as an amateur free agent by the Red Sox before the 1940 season and spent the next two seasons in the minor leagues. He appeared in 1940 for the Rocky Mount Red Sox of the Piedmont League, where he was a teammate of future Hall of Famer Heinie Manush, the team's player-manager. He went up to the Louisville Colonels after hitting.325 with Rocky Mount, where he also batted.325. He was in the major leagues for the first time this year.
Pesky led the AL in hits with 205, a Red Sox record for a rookie, as well as sacrifice hits with 22. He came in second second only to teammate Ted Williams in average, and third in Most Valuable Player voting behind MVP Joe Gordon and Williams.
Pesky returned to action in 1946, batting.335, third in the league, and fourth in MVP voting after missing three seasons due to World War II. His 53 hits in August set a new team record for hits in a month, one less than a month for Dom DiMaggio. Pesky led the league in hits for the third year in a row, 207.
The Red Sox acquired shortstop Vern Stephens, a three-time All-Star, and asked Pesky to move to third base in the 1947–48 offseason. Pesky, who had his worst season as a hitter, suffered to.281. He bounced back from 1949 to 1951, and Stephens and Pesky swapped positions, with Pesky returning to shortstop and Stephens moving to third base.
Pesky began the 1952 season slowly, and by mid-June he had appeared in just 25 games, batting.149. He was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in a nine-player contract, in which the Red Sox also traded Walt Dropo, Fred Hatfield, Don Lenhardt, and Bill Wight, and Bill Wight, along with Bill Wight, and Bill Wight, and Hoot Evers, George Kell, Johnny Lipon, and Dizzy Trout were sold. Fred Hutchinson, the Tigers' general, had Pesky mentor Al Kaline. Pesky had a batting average at shortstop with Neil Berry in 69 games with the Tigers, batting.254 on the track. Pesky was moved to second base by the Tigers in 1953, and his batting average increased to.292. However, the Tigers installed rookie Frank Bolling at second base in 1954, and Pesky was moved to the bench. Mel Hoderlein was traded by the Washington Senators in mid-season for Mel Hoderlein. He was released after finishing the season batting just.246 overall.
Pesky was signed by the Baltimore Orioles on December 16, 1954, but he was released four months later on April 10, 1955. He enrolled with the New York Yankees, where he was assigned as a player-coach for the Denver Bears, the city's top farm team. In 1956, he appeared in the Durham Bulls franchise for 17 games.
The right field foul pole at Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox, is referred to as Pesky's Pole or Pesky Pole in honor of Pesky. Mel Parnell, a former teammate and Sox broadcaster, claimed the pole after Pesky. Pesky was known to have won a game for Parnell in 1948 with a home run down the short (302 feet (92 m) right field line, just around the pole. Pesky was a contact hitter who hit only 17 home runs — six of them at Fenway Park — in 4,745 at bats in the major leagues, so it's likely that the home runs he hit there were landed in close proximity to the pole. Pesky, on the other hand, struck just one home run in a Parnell-run game in the first inning of a game against Detroit played on June 11, 1950, according to analysis. The game was eventually decided by the visiting Tigers in the 14th inning on a three-run shot by Tigers right fielder Vic Wertz and Parnell, who earned a no-decision that day.