Batting average .100 Home runs 0 | Runs batted in 2 Name Tony DePhillips | |
Anthony Andrew DePhillips (September 20, 1912 – May 5, 1994) was a Major League Baseball catcher with the Cincinnati Reds. He played for one season in 1943.
Biography
DePhillips was born in New York, New York and attended Fordham University. For his career, he compiled a .100 batting average in 20 at-bats, with two runs batted in.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s he served as the physical education teacher at the Henley School in Jamaica Estates, New York.
He also founded a sporting goods store—De Phillips Sports—in Flushing NY, which is still in business as of late 2015
In 1978, he was inducted into the Fordham University Hall of Fame. He died on May 5, 1994 in Port Jefferson, New York at the age of 81.
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