Major League Baseball Player. He played the third base position for both Major League Baseball's Los Angeles (later California) Angels and the Kansas City Royals from 1964 to 1974. He graduated from Compton (Calif.) High School and then signed with the Los Angeles Angels before the 1962 season. He made his major-league debut in 1964 and went on to play five seasons for the Angels, surviving a scary beaning from Boston Red Sox pitcher Jose Santiago at Fenway Park in 1968. He was left unprotected by the Angels for the 1969 baseball expansion draft and was picked by the Kansas City Royals. He batted .263 with 32 homers while playing parts of six seasons in Kansas City, including the best season of his career in 1971 when he batted .274 with a .387 on-base percentage and 11 homers. He was traded back to the Angels in exchange for outfielder Richie Scheinblum on April 30, 1974 which cleared the way for future Hall of Famer George Brett to assume the third base position for the Royals. After retiring in 1974, he remained in the Kansas City area, first owning a pizza restaurant and then becoming a local chiropractor. In 2010 he and his wife moved to Hawaii where he passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer.
Major League Baseball Player. He played the third base position for both Major League Baseball's Los Angeles (later California) Angels and the Kansas City Royals from 1964 to 1974. He graduated from Compton (Calif.) High School and then signed with the Los Angeles Angels before the 1962 season. He made his major-league debut in 1964 and went on to play five seasons for the Angels, surviving a scary beaning from Boston Red Sox pitcher Jose Santiago at Fenway Park in 1968. He was left unprotected by the Angels for the 1969 baseball expansion draft and was picked by the Kansas City Royals. He batted .263 with 32 homers while playing parts of six seasons in Kansas City, including the best season of his career in 1971 when he batted .274 with a .387 on-base percentage and 11 homers. He was traded back to the Angels in exchange for outfielder Richie Scheinblum on April 30, 1974 which cleared the way for future Hall of Famer George Brett to assume the third base position for the Royals. After retiring in 1974, he remained in the Kansas City area, first owning a pizza restaurant and then becoming a local chiropractor. In 2010 he and his wife moved to Hawaii where he passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer.
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