Chuck Kress
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Charles Steven Kress (December 9, 1921 – March 4, 2014) was an American
Biography
This first baseman played in all or parts of four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1947 and 1954 for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers and Brooklyn Dodgers, appearing in 175 games. His seventeen-year active career was interrupted by three years' service in the United States Army during World War II (1943–1945).[1][2] Kress was born in Philadelphia, where he attended Frankford High School.
Kress threw and batted left-handed, and was listed as 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and 190 pounds (86 kg). In MLB, he appeared in one full season,
In his 175 big-league games, Kress batted .249 with 116 hits, including twenty doubles. His lone MLB home run was a solo shot off the Tigers' Fred Hutchinson on July 1.[3]
As a minor leaguer, he got into 1,745 games and became a manager in the Tigers' and
He retired from baseball in 1961, and moved to Rush Lake, Minnesota, in 1973, to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1980, and to Sandpoint, Idaho, in 2002.
References
- ^ In Memory of Charles "Charlie" Steven Kress Archived 2016-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Chuck Kress Statistics and History". "baseball-reference.com. Accessed May 30, 2017.
- ^ Retrosheet box score: 1949-07-01
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)