Английская Википедия:Clyde Kluttz
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Clyde Franklin Kluttz (December 12, 1917 – May 12, 1979) was an American professional baseball player, scout and front-office executive. In Major League Baseball, Kluttz was a catcher for the Boston Braves (1942–45), New York Giants (1945–46), St. Louis Cardinals (1946), Pittsburgh Pirates (1947–48), St. Louis Browns (1951) and Washington Senators (1951–52). He threw and batted right-handed, stood Шаблон:Convert tall and weighed Шаблон:Convert.
Born in nearby Rockwell, he was a longtime resident of Salisbury, North Carolina, where he attended Catawba College. His 17-year playing career began in 1938. Kluttz appeared in 52 regular season games as a member of the Шаблон:Mlby world champion Cardinals—and was the starting catcher on October 3 for the flag-clinching Game 2 of the postseason playoff against the Brooklyn Dodgers[1]—but he did not play in the 1946 World Series.
In nine Major League seasons, Kluttz played in 656 games, and had 1,903 at-bats, 172 runs, 510 hits, 90 doubles, 8 triples, 19 home runs, 212 RBI, 5 stolen bases, 132 walks, .268 batting average, .318 on-base percentage, .354 slugging percentage, 673 total bases and 30 sacrifice hits.
Kluttz was a longtime scout after his playing days ended, working with the Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees. He was credited with signing Baseball Hall of Famer Catfish Hunter, a fellow North Carolinian, for the Athletics in 1964, and, 11 years later, while serving as the Yankees' scouting director (1974–75), he played a key role in convincing free agent Hunter to join the Yankees.[2] Kluttz resigned from the Yankees and was reunited with friend and Athletics colleague Hank Peters as director of player development with the Baltimore Orioles on January 7, 1976.[3] He served in that capacity from 1976 until his 1979 death, in Salisbury, at age 61 from kidney and heart ailments.[4][5]
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- ↑ 1946-10-3 box score from Retrosheet
- ↑ Catfish Hunter obituary, Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1999
- ↑ Harvin, Al. "People in Sports," The New York Times, Thursday, January 8, 1976. Retrieved June 15, 2021
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Associated Press, May 13, 1979
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