Ken Aspromonte
| Ken Aspromonte | |||
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| Second baseman / Manager | |||
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Born: September 22, 1931 Brooklyn, New York |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 2, 1957, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| June 21, 1963, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .249 | ||
| Home runs | 19 | ||
| Runs batted in | 124 | ||
| Games managed | 480 | ||
| Win–loss record | 220–260 | ||
| Winning % | .458 | ||
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Kenneth Joseph Aspromonte (born September 22, 1931) is a retired American professional baseball player and manager. During his active career, the native of Brooklyn, New York, spent all or parts of seven seasons (1957–63) in the Major Leagues, mostly as a second baseman, for the Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels of the American League, and the Milwaukee Braves and Chicago Cubs of the National League. He spent three years (1964–66) playing in Japan with the Chunichi Dragons and Taiyo Whales. He also managed in the Major Leagues for three full seasons as skipper of the 1972–74 Indians.
He is the older brother of Bob Aspromonte, who had a 13-year career as a third baseman in the National League.
Ken Apromonte batted and threw right-handed, and was listed as 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and 180 pounds (82 kg). He signed with the Red Sox in 1950 and spent six years in the minors, plus two in military service, before reaching the big leagues in September 1957 after he led the Pacific Coast League in batting average (.334) for the San Francisco Seals. After only 30 games played with Boston in 1957–58, he was traded to the Senators, where he spent almost two full seasons. However, his best MLB year was in 1960. Traded to the Indians on May 15, he started 78 games at second base and 35 at third base, and batted a career-high .290 with ten home runs. But Cleveland left him exposed to the 1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft and Aspromonte was the 14th player selected by the Angels, 27th overall, in the lottery.
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