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Batting average
  
.276

Role
  
Baseball player

Name
  
Guy Curtright

Runs batted in
  
108

Home runs
  
9


Guy Curtright Guy Curtright Society for American Baseball Research

Died
  
August 23, 1997, Sun City Center, Florida

Guy Paxton Curtright (October 18, 1912 – August 23, 1997) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox (1943–1946). He was born in Holliday, Missouri.

At age 30, it was a long way for Curtright, who spent 11 seasons in the minors before make his way to major league with the Chicago White Sox. As a rookie in 1943, his only season as a regular, he hit .291 (6th in the American League) and posted career-highs in runs (67), hits (142), doubles (20), runs batted in (48), stolen bases (13) and games played (138), including a 26-game hitting streak.

In a four-season career, Curtright was a .276 hitter with nine home runs and 108 RBI in 331 games.

Curtright died in Sun City Center, Florida, at the age of 84.

References

Guy Curtright Wikipedia


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