Jack Maguire (baseball)

Jack Maguire
Jack Maguire
Runs batted in	21
Teams
	New York Giants (1950–1951); Pittsburgh Pirates (1951); St. Louis Browns (1951);

Jack Maguire (February 5, 1925 – September 28, 2001) was an American professional baseball player whose career lasted for eight seasons (1943; 1946–52). He played in 94

St. Louis, Missouri

, Maguire threw and batted right-handed. He stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 165 pounds (75 kg).

Maguire spent five seasons in the Giants'

home runs. He saw the most playing time as a member of his hometown Browns during the closing months of the 1951 season. Maguire started 30 games as a left fielder or third baseman, and had nine multi-hit games, including three-hit efforts against the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees on consecutive days, August 2–3.^[1]

As a youth growing up in St. Louis, Maguire gave Yogi Berra his famous nickname. One afternoon, after attending a movie that had a short piece on India, Maguire noticed a resemblance between Berra and the "yogi", or person who practiced yoga, on the screen. Maguire said "I’m going to call you Yogi" and from that moment on, the name stuck.

Maguire also wore uniform #24 of the Giants from 1950 through May 23, 1951, his final game with the club. Rookie centerfielder Willie Mays, recalled from Triple-A, made his MLB debut two days later, on May 25, wearing #14 but he soon inherited 24, and famously wore it for the rest of his Hall of Fame career.

References

^ Retrosheet

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference

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