Cal Ermer
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Born: November 10, 1923 Baltimore, Maryland |
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Died: August 8, 2009 (aged 85) Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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| September 26, 1947, for the Washington Senators | |||
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| September 26, 1947, for the Washington Senators | |||
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| Batting average | .000 | ||
| At bats | 3 | ||
| Hits | 0 | ||
| Managerial record | 145–129 (.529) | ||
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Calvin Coolidge Ermer (November 10, 1923 – August 8, 2009) was an American second baseman, manager, coach and scout in Major League Baseball. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He was the youngest of seven children (six boys and one girl). Some of his brothers names were John, Charles, Henry and William. As a player, Ermer threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg).
Infielder Ermer played in the minor leagues from 1942 to 1951 with two years—1943–1945 gone to military service in World War II. As a minor league player he never played above A level, except for 1947 when he went to the Washington Senators and was in one major league game.
Most of Ermer's 60-plus-year career in baseball was spent as an employee of the Minnesota Twins and its predecessor franchise (before 1961), the Washington Senators. His only Major League game as a player, on September 26, 1947, came with Washington; he was hitless in three at bats and handled seven fielding chances flawlessly as a second baseman. Ermer also played and managed in the club's farm system, handling Senators/Twins farm clubs over five different decades: Charlotte, North Carolina 1947; Orlando, Florida, 1950; Charlotte, 51; Chattanooga, Tennessee, 52–57; Denver Bears, 1965–67; Tacoma, WA, 1974–76; Toledo, Ohio, 1978–85.
During his managing career, he also served as a skipper in the minor league systems of the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees, and in 1958 won The Sporting News Minor League Manager of the Year award while with the Birmingham Barons, then a farm team of the Detroit Tigers. His minor league teams won championships in 1947 and 1958.
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