Bob Ramazzotti

Robert Louis Ramazzotti (January 16, 1917 – February 15, 2000) was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 346 Major League Baseball games between 1946 and 1953 as an infielder and pinch hitter for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. He was born in Eleanora, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Altoona.

Ramazzotti threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall and 175 pounds (79 kg). He was 23 years old when he entered Organized Baseball in the Brooklyn organization in 1940; then, after two

He spent all of 1947 and most of 1948 in Triple-A, where he sustained two serious injuries: a fractured skull from a beanball in 1947 and a badly sprained hand in the latter year.^[2] After appearing in a total of nine games for the Dodgers in 1948 and 1949, he was traded to the Chicago Cubs for fellow infielder Hank Schenz on May 16, 1949.

As a Cub, Ramazzotti experienced his most sustained success in professional baseball, appearing in 275 games over 41⁄2 National League seasons, and batting .262, .247 and .284 in the three campaigns spanning 1950 to 1952. He had two four-hit games, both in 1949, a year in which, ironically, he struggled badly at the plate, batting only .179 with 34 total hits in a Chicago uniform.

During his MLB career of all or part of seven seasons and 346 games, Bob Ramazzotti collected 196 safeties, with 22

After baseball, Ramazzotti returned to Altoona, where he worked in manufacturing and later operated a sandwich shop.[2] He died there at age 83 in February 2000.

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