Lefty Hoerst
Lefty Hoerst | |
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Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | |
Died: February 18, 2000 Maple Shade, New Jersey, U.S. | (aged 82)|
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |
MLB debut | |
April 26, 1940, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 21, 1947, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 10–33 |
Earned run average | 5.17 |
Strikeouts | 105 |
Teams | |
Frank Joseph "Lefty" Hoerst (August 11, 1917 – February 18, 2000) was an American
Memphis Chickasaws
, pitching in just four major league games. After spending all of 1948 with Memphis, Hoerst's professional career was over.
A 1935 graduate of Northeast Catholic High School and 1939 graduate of La Salle University, Hoerst was a two-sports stand out in baseball and basketball.[3] He won championships in both sports while at North (baseball in 1934 and basketball in 1935). He also coached North Catholic basketball for three years in the 1940s and college baseball at LaSalle after his retirement from Major League Baseball.[3] He was inducted into both the North Catholic Alumni Hall of Fame and the LaSalle University Athletic Hall of Fame.
Hoerst died on February 18, 2000, and was interred at
Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania.[3]
References
- ^ "Baseball in Wartime - Lefty Hoerst". BaseballinWartime.com. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^ "Hoerst in Navy". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press (AP). August 10, 1942. p. 16. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
- ^ a b c Wolf, Gregory H. "Lefty Hoerst". sabr.org. Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet