Career
The right-handed pitcher had a highly successful minor league career, twice winning 20 games and notching one 19-victory season, but made only two appearances in Major League Baseball for the 1956 Pittsburgh Pirates. Born in Hunker, Pennsylvania, he stood 6 feet 1 inch (185 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). During 1955, he went 20–16 at the top level of the minors, with the Hollywood Stars of the Open-Classification Pacific Coast League and led the PCL in strikeouts.
He appeared in two MLB games with the Pirates in 1956, both in relief — pitching one inning against the Philadelphia Phillies in May and three innings against the Brooklyn Dodgers in September after spending most of the season with Hollywood.
In those four innings, he surrendered three hits (including a home run to Brooklyn"s Gil Hodges) and one earned run, striking out three and issuing three bases on balls.