George Strickland (baseball)
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| Shortstop / Manager | |||
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Born: January 10, 1926 New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Died: February 21, 2010 (aged 84) New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 7, 1950, for the Pittsburgh Pirates | |||
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| July 23, 1960, for the Cleveland Indians | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .224 | ||
| Home runs | 36 | ||
| Runs batted in | 284 | ||
| Managerial record | 48–63 | ||
| Winning % | .432 | ||
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George Bevan "Bo" Strickland (January 10, 1926 – February 21, 2010) was an American professional baseball player and manager who spent ten seasons from 1950 to 1960 as an infielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Indians. He served as the Indians' interim manager twice in the 1960s. He was also a cousin of Hal Bevan.
Strickland was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 10, 1926. He was a star shortstop at the city's S.J. Peters High School, where one of his teammates was Mel Parnell. Strickland also played for the Southwest Sectional champions representing his hometown at the American Legion Baseball World Series in Miles City, Montana in 1943. Immediately after the tournament, he signed with the New Orleans Pelicans, a Brooklyn Dodgers farm team at the time, and made his professional debut on September 5, 1943. He appeared in only three games that season, all as a third baseman, and collected two singles in eight at bats.
Strickland's baseball career was interrupted when he was drafted into the United States Navy in March 1944. He was stationed as a Specialist Mailman for 16 months in Saipan after American forces had captured the island from the Imperial Japanese Army in July of the same year. He was given his honorable discharge in May 1946.
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