Dick Sisler
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| First baseman / Left fielder / Manager | |||
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Born: November 2, 1920 St. Louis, Missouri |
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Died: November 20, 1998 (aged 78) Nashville, Tennessee |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 16, 1946, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
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| August 1, 1953, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .276 | ||
| Home runs | 55 | ||
| Runs batted in | 360 | ||
| Managerial record | 121–94 | ||
| Winning % | .562 | ||
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Richard Alan Sisler (November 2, 1920 – November 20, 1998) was an American player, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he was the son of Hall of Fame first baseman and two-time .400 hitter George Sisler. Younger brother Dave Sisler was a relief pitcher in the 1950s and 1960s with four MLB teams, and older brother George Jr. was a longtime executive in minor league baseball.
Sisler attended Colgate University. Listed at 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 205 pounds (93 kg), he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
He was a journeyman left fielder and first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals (1946–47; 1952–53), Philadelphia Phillies (1948–51) and Cincinnati Reds (1952). In an eight-season career, he hit .276 with 55 home runs and 360 RBI in 799 games. He made the National League All-Star team in 1950.
On the closing day of the 1950 season, at Ebbets Field, Sisler hit a tenth-inning, opposite-field three-run home run against the Brooklyn Dodgers that would lead to the "Whiz Kids" Phillies winning their first National League pennant in 35 years. Had Philadelphia lost, the Phillies and Dodgers would have finished in a flatfooted tie for the NL championship and a best-of-three playoff would have resulted. The home run made Sisler world-famous; Ernest Hemingway feted him in his novel The Old Man and the Sea. Describing a conversation between an aging Cuban fisherman and his young apprentice discussing the 1950 big-league season, Hemingway quotes the older man as saying:
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