Chuck Schilling
| Chuck Schilling | |||
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| Second Baseman | |||
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Born: October 25, 1937 Brooklyn, New York |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 11, 1961, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 3, 1965, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .239 | ||
| Hits | 470 | ||
| Home runs | 23 | ||
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Charles Thomas Schilling (born October 25, 1937) is an American former professional baseball player. He was a second baseman in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox from 1961–65. A 1963 graduate of Manhattan College, he threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 170 pounds (77 kg).
After playing for Boston's Triple-A Minneapolis Millers farm team in 1960, Schilling broke into the Major Leagues in 1961, the same year as his friend and fellow Long Islander, eventual Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski. A slick fielder, his arrival prompted the Red Sox to move the incumbent American League batting champion, Pete Runnels, from second base to first baseman and utility infielder. Schilling appeared in 158 games as a rookie, setting career highs in batting average (.259), hits (167), runs scored (87) and runs batted in (RBI) (62). He committed eight errors in 846 chances for a league-best fielding percentage of .991. He won the Red Sox' Most Valuable Player (now the Thomas A. Yawkey) Award for 1961 as bestowed by the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
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