Charlie Gilbert | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 8, 1919 New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Died |
August 13, 1983 (aged 64) New Orleans, Louisiana |
Charles Mader Gilbert (July 8, 1919 – August 13, 1983) was an American professional baseball outfielder who appeared in 364 games, mostly as a center fielder, in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1940), Chicago Cubs (1941–1943 and 1946) and Philadelphia Phillies (1946–1947). He threw and batted left-handed and stood 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighed 165 pounds (75 kg).
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was the son of former MLB outfielder and longtime minor-league manager Larry Gilbert; his brother Tookie also played in the majors. Charlie Gilbert served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.[1] He joined the Dodgers in his second pro season, in 1940. In his third MLB game, on April 23, 1940, he hit a pair of home runs against the Boston Bees in an 8–3 Brooklyn victory at Ebbets Field.[2] He thus became the first player, and one of three men in the history of the Dodgers' franchise, to have a multi-home-run game in his first five starts; the others are Cody Bellinger and Yasiel Puig.[3]
He died at age 64 in New Orleans. Gilbert's daughter Jan went on the memorialize her late father in Goodbye, Dad, a series of mixed-media works utilizing family photographs.[4]
References[]
- ↑ Charlie Gilbert, Baseball in Wartime
- ↑ Retrosheet box score (23 April 1940): "Brooklyn Dodgers 8, Boston Bees 3"
- ↑ True Blue LA.com
- ↑ Walker, Dave (15 October 2021). "One writer's journey into the circle of famed New Orleans artist John Clemmer | The Historic New Orleans Collection". https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/one-writers-journey-circle-famed-new-orleans-artist-john-clemmer.
External links[]
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- Charlie Gilbert at Find a Grave
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