Gordie Windhorn
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Gordon Ray Windhorn (December 19, 1933 – May 21, 2022)right-handed, and was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 185 pounds (84 kg). He attended Arizona State University.
Windhorn's professional career extended from 1952 through 1963. He signed originally with the
at bats. Traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers at the beginning of the 1960 campaign, he played for their Triple-A affiliates the Montreal Royals (1960) and Omaha Dodgers (early 1961), before his recall to Los Angeles for his most successful MLB stint. Playing in 34 games for the 1961 Dodgers, he had eight hits in 33 at bats, and slugged his only two big-league home runs: they came in back-to-back games against the Philadelphia Phillies September 11-12.[2]
He rounded out his MLB tenure in 1962 by getting into 54 games combined for the Athletics and Angels, then spent 1963 at Triple-A before decamping for Japan.
As a major leaguer, Windhorn collected 19 hits, 11 of them for
runs batted in. In Nippon Professional Baseball
, he got into 641 games, with 501 hits, including 86 homers, and posted a .255 batting mark.
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