Hank Biasatti

Hank Biasatti
First baseman
Born: (1922-01-14)January 14, 1922 Beano, Italy
Died: April 20, 1996(1996-04-20) (aged 74) Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.
Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
April 23, 1949, for the Philadelphia Athletics
Last MLB appearance
October 2, 1949, for the Philadelphia Athletics
MLB statistics
Batting average	.083
Home runs	0
Runs batted in	2
Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
Philadelphia Athletics (1949)
Basketball career Personal information Listed height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Listed weight 175 lb (79 kg) Career information College Guard Number 3 Coaching career 1956–1962 Career history As a player: 1946 Toronto Huskies As a coach: 1956–1962 Assumption Stats at NBA.com  Basketball Reference

Henry Arcado Biasatti (January 14, 1922 – April 20, 1996) was an Italian-Canadian National Basketball Association (NBA) player and a Major League Baseball first baseman. He is the only Canadian to play at the top professional level in both sports. He was also the first international player in NBA history.

Born in Beano, Italy, Biasatti grew up in

The 1943 London Army Team won the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) Championship, the Ontario Baseball Association Senior 'A' Championship and the Canadian Baseball Congress Championship. The next season, playing for the IBL Champion 1944 London Majors, Biasatti was ruled ineligible to play by the OBA because he would also play Sunday games in Detroit. The OBA ordered London to replay its semi-final series against Windsor because Biasatti had played for the Majors, a series London won again. In 1944, the London Majors also went on to win the Canadian Baseball Congress Championship.

Biasatti and the Majors also won the IBL and OBA senior title in 1945. Biasatti played basketball for Assumption between the 1945 and 1946 baseball seasons.

In 1946, Biasatti began the baseball season as the starting first baseman for the Maple Leafs in the

In baseball, Biasatti played in Savannah in 1947, hitting .299 and finishing second in the league in home runs. He rejoined the Leafs in 1948, on loan from the Athletics, and led the team with 21 home runs. Biasatti made it to the major leagues in 1949, appearing in 21 games for the Athletics. He got some playing time in August, after an injury to starting first baseman Ferris Fain, but over 24 at-bats that season, Biasatti's batting average was a very low .083. With eight walks, his on-base percentage was .312. He had just two hits in the major leagues, both of them doubles. After the season, he was purchased by the Buffalo Bisons of the International League and played there in 1950 and 1951.

In 1953, Biasatti was player-manager of the Waterloo Tigers of the Intercounty Baseball League, playing first base and pitching. He managed the Drummondville A's of Quebec's Provincial League in 1954 and the following season managed the Lancaster Red Roses in the Class B Piedmont League. Both of those teams were in the Philadelphia Athletics/Kansas City Athletics farm system.

Biasatti became head basketball coach at the newly renamed

In 1996, Biasatti died at the age of 74 in Dearborn, Michigan. He was inducted into the Windsor/Essex County Sports Hall of Fame in 1982, the University of Windsor Alumni Sports Hall of Fame in 1986, and the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.

• Career statistics from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet

• Career statistics from NBA.com  and Basketball Reference 
• University of Windsor Alumni Sports Hall of Fame
• FrozenHoops.com History of basketball in Canada. Selection of Top 100 Canadian players of all time