- George Crowe
George Daniel Crowe (b.
March 22 ,1923 inWhiteland, Indiana ) was a Major Leaguefirst baseman . He graduated from Indiana Central College, now theUniversity of Indianapolis , in 1943 and played baseball and basketball. He was the first Indiana "Mr. Basketball". He was a first baseman with a nine year career from 1952-1953, 1955-1961 and played for the Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves,Cincinnati Redlegs andSt. Louis Cardinals (all of theNational League ). George Crowe hit 31 home runs in 1957, filling in most of the season for the injuredTed Kluszewski .He was elected to the National League
All-Star team in 1958, although Crowe was not used in the All-Star Game. Coincidentally, the year before, fans of his team—the Cincinnati Redlegs (as the Reds were called at the time)—had been involved in aballot stuffing campaign to put all of the team's regulars in the starting lineup.Ed Bailey ,Johnny Temple ,Roy McMillan ,Don Hoak ,Frank Robinson ,Gus Bell andWally Post had been "voted" into the lineup, but Crowe was beaten out in the final vote tally by future Cardinal teammateStan Musial . Crowe set a record (later broken by Jerry Lynch and later Cliff Johnson) for most pinch hit home runs with 14.
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