Charlie Shoemaker

Charlie Shoemaker
Second baseman
Born: August 10, 1939(1939-08-10) Los Angeles, California
Died: May 31, 1990(1990-05-31) (aged 50) Mount Penn, Pennsylvania
Batted: Left	Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 9, 1961 for the Kansas City Athletics
Last MLB appearance
July 26, 1964 for the Kansas City Athletics
Career statistics
Batting average	.258
Home runs	0
Runs batted in	4
Teams
Kansas City Athletics (1961–1962; 1964)

Charles Landis Shoemaker (August 10, 1939 — May 31, 1990) was an American professional baseball player. The native of Los Angeles, California, appeared as a second baseman in parts of three Major League Baseball seasons (1961–1962; 1964) for the Kansas City Athletics. He batted left-handed, threw right-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 155 pounds (70 kg).

Shoemaker attended high school in Montebello, California, and the University of Arizona before signing with the Athletics in 1961. After batting .271 in 82 games played for the Class A Portsmouth-Norfolk Tides of the Sally League that season, he was recalled by the A's in September 1961. He collected ten hits in 28 at bats, including two doubles for a .385 average. But in two succeeding trials with Kansas City, he batted only .206 in 63 at bats. All told, he batted .258 as a Major Leaguer, with 23 hits, no home runs and four runs batted in.

The final seven years of his career were spent exclusively in minor league baseball, and Shoemaker retired after the 1971 season.

Charlie Shoemaker died in Mount Penn, Pennsylvania, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 50 on May 31, 1990.^[1]

References

1. ^ Coleman, Loren, The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines. New York Pocket Books, 2004, page 214

External links

• Career statistics from Baseball Reference

Persondata
Name	Shoemaker, Charlie
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	August 10, 1939
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California
Date of death	May 31, 1990
Place of death	Mount Penn, Pennsylvania