Jess Dobernic
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Jess Dobernic | |
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St. Louis, Missouri | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
July 2, 1939, for the Chicago White Sox | |
Last MLB appearance | |
July 28, 1949, for the Cincinnati Reds | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 7–3 |
Earned run average | 5.21 |
Strikeouts | 55 |
Teams | |
Andrew Joseph "Jess" Dobernic (November 20, 1917 – July 16, 1998) was an American professional
Life and career
Dobernic was born in a Yugoslavian family in Mount Olive, Illinois. His first organized baseball was for Rayne, Louisiana in the Evangeline Baseball League in 1937. For the next four years, he was in the Chicago White Sox system including the St. Paul Saints, Waterloo Hawks and the major league team. But difficulty controlling his pitches largely kept him out of the major leagues.
During World War II, Dobernic spent three years in the United States Army Air Forces including Africa and Italy.[1] He returned in the summer of 1945 and pitched for an Army team in Texas, winning 19 consecutive games despite his continued wild pitching.
Dobernic died in
References
- ^ "Those Who Served A to Z". BaseballinWartime.com. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- Dick Hyland of the Los Angeles Times.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)