Which famous people have you outlived?

Augie Galan

American baseball player

Died when: 81 years 219 days (979 months)
Star Sign: Gemini

 

Augie Galan

August John Galan (May 23, 1912 – December 28, 1993) was an American professional baseball outfielder, manager and coach.He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1934 to 1949 for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics.

Galan threw right-handed and began his career as a switch hitter, however, starting in the latter part of 1943, he became strictly a left-handed hitter until the end of his career.

He was listed as 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and 175 pounds (79 kg).


Related People

Roy Campanella
American baseball player
Billy Shantz
American baseball player
Ethan Allen
American baseball player
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License