Cookie Lavagetto
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| Third baseman / Second baseman / Manager | |||
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Born: December 1, 1912 Oakland, California |
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Died: August 10, 1990 (aged 77) Orinda, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 17, 1934, for the Pittsburgh Pirates | |||
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| September 28, 1947, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .269 | ||
| Home runs | 40 | ||
| Runs batted in | 486 | ||
| Managerial record | 271–384 | ||
| Winning % | .414 | ||
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Harry Arthur "Cookie" Lavagetto (December 1, 1912 – August 10, 1990) was a third baseman, manager and coach in American Major League Baseball. He was the pinch hitter whose double ruined Bill Bevens' no-hitter in Game 4 of the 1947 World Series and gave his Brooklyn Dodgers a victory over the New York Yankees, a game known as The Cookie Game.
On October 3, 1947 at Ebbets Field, Bevens was ahead 2–1 going into the bottom of the ninth inning, and got two outs. He had surrendered no hits — an unprecedented World Series achievement at the time — but two runners were on base from Bevens' ninth and tenth walks of the game. Lavagetto was summoned by Dodger pilot Burt Shotton to hit for Eddie Stanky, and with no balls and one strike cracked an opposite-field double off the right field wall to break up the no-hitter and score the two Dodger runners (pinch runners Al Gionfriddo and Eddie Miksis) for a 3–2 Brooklyn win. It was Lavagetto's only hit of the series (won by the Yankees in seven games), and his last as a big leaguer.
Lavagetto was born in Oakland, California. Nicknamed "Cookie" after an owner of the Oakland Oaks, his first professional team, he played ten seasons in the National League with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1934–36) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–41; 1946–47), missing four full seasons due to World War II service the United States Navy. A right-handed batter and thrower, he hit .269 with 945 hits in 1,043 games, including 183 doubles, 37 triples, and 40 home runs. His best season was 1939, when he hit .300 with 87 runs batted in for Brooklyn.
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