Whitey Lockman
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Lockman at the Polo Grounds.
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| Outfielder / First baseman / Manager | |||
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Born: July 25, 1926 Lowell, North Carolina |
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Died: March 17, 2009 (aged 82) Scottsdale, Arizona |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 5, 1945, for the New York Giants | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| June 24, 1960, for the Cincinnati Reds | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .279 | ||
| Home runs | 114 | ||
| Runs batted in | 563 | ||
| Managerial record | 157–162 | ||
| Winning % | .492 | ||
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Carroll Walter "Whitey" Lockman (July 25, 1926 – March 17, 2009) was a player, coach, manager and front office executive in American Major League Baseball.
Lockman played a supporting role in one of the most famous ninth-inning comebacks in baseball history.
On October 3, 1951, Lockman scored the tying run, just ahead of Bobby Thomson, on Thomson's home run that gave the New York Giants the National League championship—baseball's "Shot Heard 'Round the World." Lockman's one-out double against the Brooklyn Dodgers had scored Alvin Dark with the Giants' first run of the inning, and made the score 4–2, Brooklyn. His hit knocked Dodger pitcher Don Newcombe out of the game, and, on the play, Giant baserunner Don Mueller broke his ankle sliding into third base.
While Mueller was being carried off the field to be replaced by pinch runner Clint Hartung, Dodger manager Chuck Dressen, acting on the instructions of Dodger bullpen coach Clyde Sukeforth, called on relief pitcher Ralph Branca, whose second pitch was hit by Thomson over the head of Andy Pafko into the Polo Grounds' lower left field stands for a game-winning, three-run homer.
Born in Lowell, North Carolina, Lockman was a first baseman and outfielder who batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He signed with the Giants as a 17-year-old during World War II and came to New York from the minor leagues in the midseason of 1945, just prior to his 19th birthday. He batted .341 in limited duty that season, but would hit over .300 only once more during a 15-year Major League playing career.
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