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6 unusual facts about 1939 in baseball


Chico Carrasquel

Carrasquel joined the White Sox in 1950, becoming the third Venezuelan to play in Major League Baseball after his uncle, Alex Carrasquel (Washington Senators, 1939) and Chucho Ramos (Cincinnati Reds, in 1944).

Double play

Records of double plays were not kept regularly until 1933 in the National League and 1939 in the American League.

Earle Mack

During the 1937 and 1939 seasons, Mack managed the Athletics when his father (by then in his mid-70s) was ill.

Hal Quick

James Harold Quick (October 4, 1917 – March 9, 1974) nicknamed "Blondie", was a shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Washington Senators in the 1939 season.

Interstate League

The longest tenured of these was the last incarnation, which played in the Middle Atlantic States from 1939 through 1952, and was one of the few mid-level minor leagues to operate continuously during the World War II period.

Steve Souchock

New York Yankees’ scout Bill Skiff had scouted Steve Souchock, and eventually he signed with the New York Yankees in June 1939, before the 1939 baseball season.



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