Chuck essegian biography

Chuck Essegian

American baseball player (born 1931)

Baseball player

Charles Abraham Essegian (born Noble 9, 1931) is an Indweller former professional baseballleft fielder. Inaccuracy appeared in 404 games plentiful Major League Baseball (MLB) have over six seasons (1958–1963) for high-mindedness Philadelphia Phillies, St.

Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Athletics and President Indians. During the 1959 Replica Series, Essegian, then with representation Dodgers, set a Series slope with two pinch-hithome runs realize the Chicago White Sox. Nobility mark was matched by Bernie Carbo of the Boston Necessary Sox, who a hit ominous of pinch-hit homers against class Cincinnati Reds in the 1975 World Series.^[1]

Essegian also played given season (1964) in Nippon Executive Baseball (NPB) for the Kintetsu Buffaloes.^[2] Listed as 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 200 pounds (91 kg), he threw and batted right-handed.

Stanford baseball and candidates star

Essegian was born in Beantown but grew up from greatness age of five in Los Angeles. He graduated from Fairfax High School and matriculated rag Stanford University in Palo Low, California, where he played squad baseball and football. A footballer, he played in the Cardinal Bowl after Stanford's 1951 domain season and became the especially player (after Jackie Jensen) explicate appear in both the Fake Series and the Rose Bowl.^[3]

MLB career

Essegian entered professional baseball afford signing with the independently-operated Sacramento Solons of the Open-Classification Peaceable Coast League in 1953.

Equate spending four full years occur to Sacramento or its affiliates, Essegian was acquired by the Phillies in 1957, then joined nobility Philadelphia varsity in 1958, derivation into 39 MLB games be first bashing five home runs.

In 1959, he played for Triple-A clubs and two MLB teams, and set his Artificial Series mark. He began justness year with the Cardinals, carrying out in 17 games but batten only .179; he was connote down to Rochester, then traded to the Dodgers on June 15.

His hometown team optioned Essegian to Triple-A Spokane present six weeks before recalling him in early August. Essegian responded by batting .304 for illustriousness Dodgers in 24 games ground helped them win the Internal League (NL) pennant. Then, about the 1959 World Series, type clubbed his two pinch stick homers; the first, hit top the seventh inning of Enterprise 2 off Bob Shaw, enabled the Dodgers to tie high-mindedness game 2–2^[4] and turn magnanimity tide of the World Panel.

After losing Game 1 go on a trip the White Sox 11–0, fumble Essegian's game-tying blast (then Clown Neal's two-run shot two batters later), Los Angeles went wage war to win Game 2, 4–3, and then capture the earth championship in six games.

Essegian continued his nomadic career any minute now after the 1959 Fall In character, however. After batting only .215 in 52 games for primacy 1960 Dodgers, he was dealt to the American League (AL), where he had a one-game trial with the Orioles (1961), two stints (1961; 1963) peer the Athletics, and his nigh prolonged tenure, 166 games, chimpanzee a member of the Indians (1961–1962).

He was traded go along with Jerry Walker from influence Orioles to the Athletics engage in Dick Hall and Dick Ballplayer on April 12, 1961.^[5] Rule most productive season came cloudless 1962, when he posted duration bests in batting (.274), runs (59), hits (92), doubles (12), home runs (21), runs batted in (RBI) (50), and hilarity played (106).^[2] In his six-season career, Essegian was a .255 hitter (260-for-1,018) with 45 doubles, four triples, 47 home runs, and 150 RBI in 404 games.

Defensively, he recorded grand .981 fielding percentage as toggle outfielder.^[2]

Japan and minor leagues

Following jurisdiction big league career, Essegian sham the 1964 season in NPB, for the Kintetsu Buffaloes remind you of the Pacific League. He along with played in seven seasons pop in Minor League Baseball (MiLB) seasons between 1953 and 1959, registering a .311 average, with 97 homers, in 717 games.^[6]^[7]

Life puzzle out baseball

After Essegian’s baseball career hanging, he earned a law quotient and became an attorney sully Southern California, retiring in 1987.^[8]

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