Jim Pendleton
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James Edward Pendleton (January 7, 1924 — March 20, 1996) was an American
Early life
Pendleton was born in 1924 in
Between 1950 and 1952, Pendleton hit between .291 and .301 each season, averaging 14 home runs and more than 15 triples per year during that period. Despite his minor league success, two factors worked against the possibility of a promotion to the Dodgers. Brooklyn already had a star major league shortstop, Pee Wee Reese, and the franchise was worried about backlash from the rest of baseball if it promoted more than one black player to the major leagues each year. The Dodgers also rejected trade offers from other teams during that time.[1]
MLB career
With Reese holding strong as the Dodgers shortstop, Brooklyn agreed to a trade that sent Pendleton to the Milwaukee Braves[1] as part of a four-team February 1953 transaction that involved Cincinnati and the Philadelphia Phillies, as well as the Dodgers. He made his MLB debut at 29 on April 17, 1953. On August 30 of that season, Pendleton hit three home runs in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, to become just the second rookie in Major League history to hit three homers in a single game, joining his teammate Eddie Mathews, who dit it a year earlier.[2]
Overall, Pendleton played more than 100 games in the outfield for Milwaukee and
In his MLB career, Pendleton appeared in 444 games over eight seasons, hitting 19 home runs. He died in
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 0786423161. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-87-020423-4
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors) or Seamheads, or Baseball Almanac, or Baseball Library, or Retrosheet, or Venezuelan Professional Baseball League